{"id":267,"date":"2008-08-06T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kilcher04.net\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-08-06T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:17:13","slug":"fiba-diamond-ball-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"FIBA Diamond Ball Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haining2008.fiba.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-268\" title=\"aus_kristiharrower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/aus_kristiharrower-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The US women beat reigning FIBA World Champions Australia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haining2008.fiba.com\/pages\/eng\/fe\/08\/diamBall\/wom\/news\/lateNews\/p\/newsid\/27581\/FE_news_lateNews_arti.html\">71-67<\/a> Tuesday night to get the top spot in the FIBA Diamond Ball for Women. The hard-fought contest seemed like a good preview for the game that would really matter &#8212; the August 23 gold medal clash. That&#8217;s the date that most people expect these two teams to meet anyway, although Russia or China or maybe Brazil might have something to say to that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haining2008.fiba.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-269\" title=\"aus_laurenjackson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/aus_laurenjackson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Penny Taylor (Phoenix Mercury) led the way for the Australian Defence Force Opals with 19 points and Lauren Jackson (Seattle Storm) had 16 and 8 boards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lisa Leslie (LA SpOrks) had 14 and 10 for the US women and point guard Sue Bird (Seattle Storm) contributed 11 on five-of-six shooting (WTG Birdy!). Candace Parker (LA SpOrks) also had a great showing with 12 buckets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haining2008.fiba.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-270 alignfull\" title=\"best5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/best5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tournament MVP: Lauren Jackson (AUS)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All-Tournament Team:<br \/>\nLauren Jackson (AUS)<br \/>\nSue Bird (US)<br \/>\nDiana Taurasi (US)<br \/>\nCandace Parker (US)<br \/>\nSui Feifei (CHN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US women beat reigning FIBA World Champions Australia 71-67 Tuesday night to get the top spot in the FIBA &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=267\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[48,97,190,248,269,323,368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}