{"id":10566,"date":"2020-04-11T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2020-04-12T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T19:57:09","slug":"h-o-r-s-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/11\/h-o-r-s-e\/","title":{"rendered":"H-O-R-S-E"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/nba-set-to-televise-h-o-r-s-e-competition-with-league-stars-on-espn-2020-04-08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)\">from MarketWatch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NBA set to televise H-O-R-S-E competition with league stars on ESPN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The NBA stopped play on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/author\/weston-blasi?mod=MW_author_byline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Weston Blasi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greatest Game of HORSE Ever | Brodie Smith\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7MLjQxGiVs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The NBA is nearing a deal with ESPN&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/DIS?mod=MW_story_quote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DIS,&nbsp;+3.39%<\/a>&nbsp;to televise a H-O-R-S-E competition, which would include current NBA stars Chris Paul, Trae Young, Zach LaVine, and Mike Conley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game will also include retired players Chauncey Billups and Paul Pierce, as well as current WNBA star Allie Quigley and WNBA legend Tamika Catchings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shot-for-shot game involves one player making a basket \u2014 often a trick shot \u2014 and his opponent having to make the same shot. If the second player misses it, he gets a letter. When he misses five shots \u2014 enough to spell out H-O-R-S-E \u2014 he loses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NBA hosted a H-O-R-S-E competition as part of its\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/2011\/2\/9\/1984887\/nba-all-star-horse-contest?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\">All-Star Weekend in 2009 and 2010<\/a>. It struggled to gain traction and was canceled after only two years. The NBA hosts events such as the dunk contest and 3-point-shootout during its All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/nba-set-to-televise-h-o-r-s-e-competition-with-league-stars-on-espn-2020-04-08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at MarketWatch<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MarketWatch NBA set to televise H-O-R-S-E competition with league stars on ESPN The NBA stopped play on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic By\u00a0Weston Blasi The NBA is nearing a deal with ESPN&nbsp;DIS,&nbsp;+3.39%&nbsp;to televise a H-O-R-S-E competition, which would include current NBA stars Chris Paul, Trae Young, Zach LaVine, and Mike Conley. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}