{"id":1157,"date":"2009-07-03T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T16:50:19","slug":"lakers-get-artest-but-ariza-agrees-with-the-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Get Artest But Ariza Agrees With The Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"vv\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-lakers3-2009jul03,0,7602019.story\" target=\"_blank\">ARTICLE FROM latimes.com (full story c<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/artest.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1158\" title=\"artest\" src=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/artest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><a title=\"vv\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-lakers3-2009jul03,0,7602019.story\" target=\"_blank\">lick here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>p.s  Some people in LA think this is a wrong move for the Lakers to sign the free agent.  But some folks it is great to sign Artest. One of the best defensive players in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people think Kobe Bryant and Artest don&#8217;t get along but I guess that is not the truth. They are good friends.<\/p>\n<p>What I am bothered by is this. Where is the loyality in pro sports. Players just move from team to team for the $$. Few players stay with a team. Kobe has stayed with the Lakers his entire career so far, Derek Jeter has stayed with the Yankees. Ray Lewis has stayed with his team. And a few others.<\/p>\n<p>Also Trevor Ariza left the Lakers for the Rockets. Good luck to him. In my opinion he is another James Posey. A good piece to a team.    G.C<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check us out 24\/7 with &#8220;Music Inner City TV&#8221; Many programs to watch ANYTIME you want right here. M.I.C-TV is the ONLY locally produced urban music\/interview\/urban sports TV show in the Northwest (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTICLE FROM latimes.com (full story click here) p.s Some people in LA think this is a wrong move for the Lakers to sign the free agent. But some folks it is great to sign Artest. One of the best defensive players in the NBA. A lot of people think Kobe Bryant and Artest don&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}