{"id":1228,"date":"2019-06-11T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauleide.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T22:34:32","slug":"1996-nba-draft-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18454\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18454 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"388\" \/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18454 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"388\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1996 NBA Draft was loaded with studs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft, particularly when draft order was determined during the Draft Lottery, was how excited 76ers President Pat Croce got when it was announced the Sixers would get the number one pick.<\/h1>\n<p>His personality, coupled with the success of the franchise over the next five years, basically spawned an entire reality TV career for him for the next several years.<\/p>\n<p>But the reason he was excited was because it meant his team was going to get the player everyone coveted the most above all other players available; Allen Iverson.<\/p>\n<p>In two years at Georgetown, Iverson averaged 23.0 ppg and was the Big East\u2019s back to back Defensive Player of the Year, pretty amazing for a six foot guard. His quickness and leaping ability were equally amazing and the most impressive that a lot of people have ever seen to this day.<\/p>\n<h2>Historically speaking though, the most impactful player from the 1996 draft ended up being Kobe Bryant, drafted 13<sup>th<\/sup> out of Lower Marion HS.<\/h2>\n<p>Though Kevin Garnett had made the successful transition from HS directly to the pros a year earlier (the first time in 20 years), there were a lot of people who doubted Bryant would ever be able to make the transition, mainly because he wasn\u2019t a big man like Garnett or wasn\u2019t strong enough. But as it stands now, he may be the second best NBA player ever.<\/p>\n<p>10 of the 29 first round picks would later become <a href=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/today-in-nba-history-1954-first-overtime-all-star-game-ever\/\">NBA All-Stars<\/a>. This first round also contained three players who would later win MVP awards; Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson and Steve Nash.<\/p>\n<p>This was a strange draft for the New York Knicks. They owned three first round picks (18, 19 and 21) which they used to select three front court players who never really panned out despite how promising they were in college; John Wallace from Syracuse, Walter McCarty from Kentucky and Dontae\u2019 Jones from Mississippi State.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A few of the better 1996 NBA Draft picks<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; Allen Iverson at one<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Marcus Camby at two<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Shareef Abdur-Rahim at three<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stephon Marbury at four<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ray Allen at five<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Antoine Walker at six<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kobe Bryant at 13<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Peja Stojakovic at 14<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Steve Nash at 15<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Zydrunus Ilgauskas at 20<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Derek Fisher at 24<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A few solid 1996 NBA Draft picks that weren\u2019t great<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; Kerry Kittles at eight<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Erick Dampier at 10<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tony Delk at 16<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jerome Williams at 26<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A few 1996 NBA Draft picks that didn\u2019t pan out:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; Lorenzen Wright at seven<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Samaki Walker at nine<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vitaly Potapenko at 12<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Travis Knight at 29<\/p>\n<p>Just like we saw with the 1984\/1985 <a href=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/today-in-nba-history-1992-shaquille-oneal-goes-1-in-nba-draft\/\">NBA Draft<\/a>, a lot of these guys, though not great, stuck around and made an impact. The real only notable busts were Todd Fuller selected at 11<sup>th<\/sup>, Brian Evans at 27, Roy Rogers at 22 or Travis Knight at 29.<\/p>\n<p>One trend that this draft set, or at least had a lot to do with establishing was players coming out of college after just one year or two years with five of the first seven picks (Iverson, Abdur-Rahim, Marbury, Walker, Wright) doing just that.<\/p>\n<p>Was the 1996 NBA Draft the best draft in NBA history?<\/p>\n<h3>Related NBA Draft Content:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2003 NBA Draft: Best Ever? (Poor Darko Edition)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1984-nba-draft-best-first-round-in-nba-draft-history\/\">1984 NBA Draft: Best Ever?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1991-nba-draft-best-first-round-ever\/\">1991 NBA Draft: Best Ever?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1985-nba-draft-best-first-round-ever\/\">1985 NBA Draft: Best Ever?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Top 5 Retro NBA Video Games: Which Was Best?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft, particularly when draft order was determined during the Draft Lottery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[1691,133,1153],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever? - I-80 Sports Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft was how excited 76ers President Pat Croce got when Sixers won #1 pick, which became Allen Iverson.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever? - I-80 Sports Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft was how excited 76ers President Pat Croce got when Sixers won #1 pick, which became Allen Iverson.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"I-80 Sports Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/i80sportsblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-11T15:25:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-12T22:34:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"495\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"388\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paul Eide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@I80SportsBlog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@I80SportsBlog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paul Eide\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Paul Eide\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60153e3d6b8ce695a5ae547332a17721\"},\"headline\":\"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever?\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-11T15:25:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-12T22:34:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/\"},\"wordCount\":579,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Basketball\",\"NBA\",\"NBA Draft\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Basketball\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/\",\"name\":\"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever? - I-80 Sports Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-11T15:25:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-12T22:34:32+00:00\",\"description\":\"The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft was how excited 76ers President Pat Croce got when Sixers won #1 pick, which became Allen Iverson.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png\",\"width\":495,\"height\":388,\"caption\":\"The 1996 NBA Draft was loaded with studs.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/\",\"name\":\"I-80 Sports Blog\",\"description\":\"Sports Content You Didn&#039;t Know You Wanted\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"I-80 Sports Blog\",\"alternateName\":\"Sports Content You Didn't Know You Wanted\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sports-blog-i-80-paul-eide-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sports-blog-i-80-paul-eide-1.png\",\"width\":838,\"height\":617,\"caption\":\"I-80 Sports Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/i80sportsblog\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/I80SportsBlog\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60153e3d6b8ce695a5ae547332a17721\",\"name\":\"Paul Eide\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/191a9bf9a42476715d20608b1b0d5a4774ca41e1083305b2b8d76d59972b94b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/191a9bf9a42476715d20608b1b0d5a4774ca41e1083305b2b8d76d59972b94b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Paul Eide\"},\"description\":\"I\u2019ve been a freelance journalist since 2000 and have had my work published via AskMen, Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, Busted Coverage, and Autotrader. \u00a0 I own a marketing agency Wandering Eye and a notary business, Nebraska Notary. I\u2019ve done stand-up comedy, I'm a dad, former youth soccer club President, and former team statistician for the oldest indoor football team in the world, the Omaha Beef. I\u2019ve married six couples in 10 years and my Marriage to Still Married ratio is 6:6. I always say, it isn\u2019t so much about the \u201clove,\u201d as it is the tasteless jokes that became vows. \u00a0 I started the I-80 Sports Blog to have all the work I've published located in one place and to write about things I want to write about. I don't take anything too seriously and it is a real time saver.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/author\/paul\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever? - I-80 Sports Blog","description":"The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft was how excited 76ers President Pat Croce got when Sixers won #1 pick, which became Allen Iverson.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever? - I-80 Sports Blog","og_description":"The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft was how excited 76ers President Pat Croce got when Sixers won #1 pick, which became Allen Iverson.","og_url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/","og_site_name":"I-80 Sports Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/i80sportsblog","article_published_time":"2019-06-11T15:25:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-04-12T22:34:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":495,"height":388,"url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Paul Eide","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@I80SportsBlog","twitter_site":"@I80SportsBlog","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Paul Eide","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/"},"author":{"name":"Paul Eide","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60153e3d6b8ce695a5ae547332a17721"},"headline":"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever?","datePublished":"2019-06-11T15:25:43+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-12T22:34:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/"},"wordCount":579,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png","keywords":["Basketball","NBA","NBA Draft"],"articleSection":["Basketball"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/","url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/","name":"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever? - I-80 Sports Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png","datePublished":"2019-06-11T15:25:43+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-12T22:34:32+00:00","description":"The thing I remember most about the 1996 NBA Draft was how excited 76ers President Pat Croce got when Sixers won #1 pick, which became Allen Iverson.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1996-nba-draft.png","width":495,"height":388,"caption":"The 1996 NBA Draft was loaded with studs."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/1996-nba-draft-best-ever\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"1996 NBA Draft: Best Ever?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/","name":"I-80 Sports Blog","description":"Sports Content You Didn&#039;t Know You Wanted","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#organization","name":"I-80 Sports Blog","alternateName":"Sports Content You Didn't Know You Wanted","url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sports-blog-i-80-paul-eide-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sports-blog-i-80-paul-eide-1.png","width":838,"height":617,"caption":"I-80 Sports Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/i80sportsblog","https:\/\/x.com\/I80SportsBlog"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60153e3d6b8ce695a5ae547332a17721","name":"Paul Eide","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/191a9bf9a42476715d20608b1b0d5a4774ca41e1083305b2b8d76d59972b94b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/191a9bf9a42476715d20608b1b0d5a4774ca41e1083305b2b8d76d59972b94b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Paul Eide"},"description":"I\u2019ve been a freelance journalist since 2000 and have had my work published via AskMen, Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, Busted Coverage, and Autotrader. \u00a0 I own a marketing agency Wandering Eye and a notary business, Nebraska Notary. I\u2019ve done stand-up comedy, I'm a dad, former youth soccer club President, and former team statistician for the oldest indoor football team in the world, the Omaha Beef. I\u2019ve married six couples in 10 years and my Marriage to Still Married ratio is 6:6. I always say, it isn\u2019t so much about the \u201clove,\u201d as it is the tasteless jokes that became vows. \u00a0 I started the I-80 Sports Blog to have all the work I've published located in one place and to write about things I want to write about. I don't take anything too seriously and it is a real time saver.","url":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/author\/paul\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}