{"id":1254,"date":"2010-09-15T00:23:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T06:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2010-09-15T00:23:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T06:23:58","slug":"twis-cool-uncool-usa-basketball-the-new-york-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-cool-uncool-usa-basketball-the-new-york-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: Cool &#038; Uncool, USA Basketball &#038; the New York Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/USA-Basketball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1271\" title=\"USA Basketball\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/USA-Basketball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>Cool, <strong><a href=\"www.usabasketball.com\/\">USA Basketball<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Without all the hype and drama which has accompanied many of the previous USA teams at international tournaments, this year&#8217;s team quietly went out and won gold for the first time in 16 years at the FIBA World Championships.\u00a0 Led by <strong><a href=\"www.duke.edu\/\">Duke<\/a><\/strong> head coach <strong><a href=\"www.coachk.com\/\">Mike Krzyzewski<\/a><\/strong>, the US men&#8217;s squad was undersized and lacked a lot of the star power they could have had, i.e. Kobe, but they did a workmanlike job nonetheless.\u00a0 Very cool, USA Basketball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jets-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1273\" title=\"Jets logo\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jets-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>Uncool to the <strong><a href=\"www.newyorkjets.com\/\">New York Jets<\/a><\/strong> players and coaches for their treatment of <a href=\"www.tvazteca.com\"><strong>Mexican TV Azteca&#8217;s<\/strong> <\/a>reporter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/09\/12\/ines-sainz-azteca-jets_n_713843.html\">Ines Sainz<\/a><\/strong> who was in the Jets locker room to interview team starting quarterback <strong><a href=\"sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/players\/profile?playerId=12482\">Mark Sanchez<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The organization&#8217;s boorish behavior during <a href=\"www.hbo.com\/hard-knocks\/index.html\"><strong>HBO&#8217;s Hard Knocks<\/strong> <\/a>show was tolerable, even downright funny at times, but sexual harrassment is another thing altogether.\u00a0 Even pros have to grow up sometime, fellas.\u00a0 Very uncool, Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool, USA Basketball.\u00a0 Without all the hype and drama which has accompanied many of the previous USA teams at international tournaments, this year&#8217;s team quietly went out and won gold for the first time in 16 years at the FIBA World Championships.\u00a0 Led by Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, the US men&#8217;s squad was undersized &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-cool-uncool-usa-basketball-the-new-york-jets\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}