{"id":69603,"date":"2020-06-05T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69603"},"modified":"2020-06-05T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T23:44:49","slug":"the-ten-6-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69603","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 6\/5\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51887\" \/><\/a>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. The NBA approved a 22-team format by a 29-1 vote to resume the season beginning July 31 in Orlando, Florida. The Portland Trail Blazers were the only team that voted against the proposal. <\/p>\n<p>2. With the season being delayed nearly three months there is speculation that the Brooklyn Nets Kevin Durant, who has been recovering from a torn achilles tendon, could return to action. The Nets are currently the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference.  <\/p>\n<p>3. MLB rejected the players offer for a 114 game regular season with no additional salary cuts. At this time there is no counter proposal. <\/p>\n<p>4. Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Chris Archer had surgery to relieve symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome and won&#8217;t return until 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>5. The Yomiuri Giants of the Japanese League called off a preseason game when two players tested positive for the coronavirus. <\/p>\n<p>6. On this day in 1977 the Portland Trail Blazers, led by Bill Walton, wrapped up the NBA title in six games by beating the Philadelphia 76ers. <\/p>\n<p>7. New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft turns 79 today. <\/p>\n<p>8. According to BamaInsider.com at least five Alabama football players have tested positive for the coronavirus. <\/p>\n<p>9. South Carolina basketball coach Frank Martin announced Tuesday that he tested positive for the coronavirus in early May but has since fully recovered. <\/p>\n<p>10. Jason Whitlock has been fired by Fox Sports 1 after four years.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69608,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69603\/revisions\/69608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}