{"id":10,"date":"2006-12-07T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/2006\/12\/07\/shawn-bradley-buffoon\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T18:21:51","slug":"shawn-bradley-buffoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/2006\/12\/07\/shawn-bradley-buffoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Bradley: Buffoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my Sixers entry I failed to mention the epitome of the Sixers ineptitude during my lifetime: Shawn Bradley.\u00a0 Despite having not played basketball for two years while on a Mormom missionary trip, the Sixers selected Bradley with the #2 pick in the draft in 1993.\u00a0 He was 7 feet 6 inches tall and wore jersey number 76 for the 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>I still remember his much-anticipated debut.\u00a0 On the team&#8217;s first possession, Bradley posted up, received the ball, and began to make a move.\u00a0 The announcer said something like, &#8220;Get ready to see this for the next ten years&#8221; in excitement.\u00a0 Bradley took a dribble, pivoted, and launched a beautiful-looking hook shot.<\/p>\n<p>It was an airball.\u00a0 I hate Shawn Bradley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my Sixers entry I failed to mention the epitome of the Sixers ineptitude during my lifetime: Shawn Bradley.\u00a0 Despite having not played basketball for two years while on a Mormom missionary trip, the Sixers selected Bradley with the #2 pick in the draft in 1993.\u00a0 He was 7 feet 6 inches tall and wore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}