{"id":5786,"date":"2014-02-14T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T02:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2014-02-14T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T02:14:12","slug":"approaching-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/14\/approaching-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching the Finish Line \u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>his is the accompanying column for the Steve Nash video series The Finish Line. If you want to watch the video before reading the piece, click here.<br \/>\n2014: $9,300,500<br \/>\n2015: $9,701,000<br \/>\nSteve Nash wears no. 10 for the Lakers, but it\u2019s really 9.3. Next season, that turns into 9.7. Those are the numbers Lakers fans see. They see a walking cap figure.<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t blame them for feeling that way. The Internet changed the way we consume professional basketball. Whenever Blake Griffin unleashes a hellacious dunk, you can locate it on YouTube within eight minutes. If you\u2019re dreaming about your favorite team stealing Kyrie Irving from the foundering Cavs, you can create fake Kyrie trades on the Trade Machine for hours. If you want to find every NBA salary from LeBron James to James Johnson, Sham Sports has them shaded in multiple colors.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/approaching-the-finish-line\/\">Approaching the Finish Line \u00ab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>his is the accompanying column for the Steve Nash video series The Finish Line. If you want to watch the video before reading the piece, click here. 2014: $9,300,500 2015: $9,701,000 Steve Nash wears no. 10 for the Lakers, but it\u2019s really 9.3. Next season, that turns into 9.7. Those are the numbers Lakers fans &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/14\/approaching-the-finish-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Approaching the Finish Line \u00ab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}