{"id":663852,"date":"2010-02-13T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=15116"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:33:55","slug":"lakers-attend-rookiesophmore-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663852","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Attend Rookie\/Sophmore Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/blog_as10rookiegame_500.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"blog_as10rookiegame_500\" title=\"blog_as10rookiegame_500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15117\" \/>While the Lakers didn&#8217;t have anyone participating in this year&#8217;s Rookie\/Sophmore Challenge that didn&#8217;t stop three Lakers from attending for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Jordan Farmar, in town as the team&#8217;s players association representative, sat courtside next to the the Clippers&#8217; Chris Kaman while watching fellow UCLA Bruins Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime the NBA held their first ever Dunk-In contest between DeMar DeRozan and Eric Gordon with the winner gaining entrance into Saturday night&#8217;s main event. Shannon Brown is quickly becoming the people&#8217;s favorite to take the Slam Dunk crown but that didn&#8217;t stop him from doing a little scouting Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>For Pau Gasol it was a family affair as for the second year in a row his brother Marc was involved in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Lakers didn&#8217;t have anyone participating in this year&#8217;s Rookie\/Sophmore Challenge that didn&#8217;t stop three Lakers from attending for various reasons. Guard Jordan Farmar, in town as the team&#8217;s players association representative, sat courtside next to the the Clippers&#8217; Chris Kaman while watching fellow UCLA Bruins Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook. At halftime the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MHi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765176,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663852\/revisions\/765176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}