{"id":7294,"date":"2020-04-24T14:40:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000001681"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:56:10","slug":"video-that-time-a-good-deal-of-the-nba-played-a-game-at-the-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/video-that-time-a-good-deal-of-the-nba-played-a-game-at-the-pyramid","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: That time a good deal of the NBA played a game at the Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drew vs. Goodman NBA Basketball 2011 with Kevin Durant, James Harden, John Wall\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzMYv-toisk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this, the third installment of The562.org\u2019s Classics video series, Mike and JJ look back at the once in a lifetime basketball exhibition between the Drew League and Goodman League in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Played in front of a capacity crowd at Walter Pyramid, this All-Star game was the only way to see superstars like Kevin Durant, James Harden, John Wall as the NBA suffered through a lockout. It was clear the players and their historic summer leagues wanted to win some public favor and the crowd&#8217;s enthusiasm made it clear they did.<\/p>\n<p>The Drew League hosts summer tournaments every year, as does the Goodman League in New York. They all came together to give their fans a show, and gain an upper hand at the negotiating table with NBA owners.<\/p>\n<p>This game was played at Walter Pyramid because of the connection with Long Beach State Hall of Famer Casper Ware whose family has been a huge part of the Drew League, and the Ware\u2019s put the league in contact with LBSU when planning for the game started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Drew and Goodman leagues played in front of a capacity crowd in 2011, in a game featuring the likes of Kevin Durant, James Harden, John Wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":17155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2156],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[199],"class_list":["post-7294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-the562-classics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}