{"id":5987,"date":"2013-09-24T21:38:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T01:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2013-09-24T21:38:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T01:38:20","slug":"doing-a-180-on-the-hoops-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5987","title":{"rendered":"Doing a 180 On the Hoops Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LI46hcx-4uU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JMU officially unveiled the design for its new basketball court a few weeks ago. I didn&#8217;t say much about it at the time. To be frank, it was because I didn&#8217;t love it. But I didn&#8217;t really understand the outrage it brought about from folks either. I mean, it&#8217;s just a basketball court. Love it or hate it, it&#8217;s sort of trivial, no? Again though, I didn&#8217;t really love it. I didn&#8217;t even like it at all actually. But now that it&#8217;s complete, I dig it. I really do. My only complaint is they left the word &#8220;blog&#8221; off the baseline. Other than that, it&#8217;s different, but I like it. Even if I thought I thought I was going to hate it. Maybe there&#8217;s a lesson in there somewhere. Probably not. It&#8217;s just a basketball court.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5987&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMU officially unveiled the design for its new basketball court a few weeks ago. I didn&#8217;t say much about it at the time. To be frank, it was because I didn&#8217;t love it. But I didn&#8217;t really understand the outrage it brought about from folks either. I mean, it&#8217;s just a basketball court. Love it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3394,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3394","url_meta":{"origin":5987,"position":0},"title":"Dukes Hold On For Win Over GW","date":"December 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Well it was a little more nerve-racking down the stretch than we'd hoped, but JMU got out of DC with a 62-57 win over GW last night. It's always nice to get a win on the road and despite the relatively disappointing offensive effort in the second half, we came\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Basketball&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7486,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7486","url_meta":{"origin":5987,"position":1},"title":"Andre Nation Dismissed From JMU Basketball Team","date":"January 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Andre Nation is no longer a member of the JMU basketball team. This afternoon Head Coach Matt Brady announced that he had dismissed Nation from the program. The move is effectively immediately, but Nation will remain on scholarship for the remainder of the Spring semester. 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