{"id":478,"date":"2014-03-10T09:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-03-10T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:29:03","slug":"minnesota-state-representative-speaks-about-nba-and-street-crime-defends-talk-with-drug-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/03\/10\/minnesota-state-representative-speaks-about-nba-and-street-crime-defends-talk-with-drug-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota state representative speaks about NBA and street crime, defends talk with drug policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/03\/patgarofalo.jpg\" alt=\"patgarofalo\" width=\"558\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/03\/patgarofalo.jpg 558w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/03\/patgarofalo-548x418.jpg 548w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/03\/patgarofalo-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday Minnesota state representative Pat Garofalo attacked the NBA and its players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w\/ possible exception of increase in street crime,\u201d Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, wront on twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Let&#39;s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w\/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Pat Garofalo (@PatGarofalo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatGarofalo\/statuses\/442805513697628160\">March 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Over 1,100 people have sine re-tweeted Garofalo&#8217;s message. Many jumped on Garofalo for being racist with his message but he told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/249226701.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Tribune<\/a> that was not what his message was about.<\/p>\n<p>Garofalo says he was \u201ctalking about NBA\u2019s high arrest rate and that they are the only major pro league that testing positive for marijuana is not a substance abuse violation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo intent beyond that,\u201d he told the Star Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR fans were probably not very happy to read his comments about Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brad Keselowski either&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My joy in seeing Dale Jr lose the lead running out of gas is tempered by the fact that \u00fcber-snob Keselowski ends up winning. Bum toke dude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My joy in seeing Dale Jr lose the lead running out of gas is tempered by the fact that \u00fcber-snob Keselowski ends up winning. Bum toke dude.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Minnesota state representative Pat Garofalo attacked the NBA and its players. \u201cLet\u2019s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w\/ possible exception of increase in street crime,\u201d Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, wront on twitter. Let&#39;s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}