{"id":6603,"date":"2026-02-25T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:30:47","slug":"is-crime-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/2026\/02\/25\/is-crime-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Crime Legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6057f13e8990b1e1797009a18ce1aec7d3e215f2e96f5edfd8649e3c4dd0e245?s=48&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6057f13e8990b1e1797009a18ce1aec7d3e215f2e96f5edfd8649e3c4dd0e245?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-48 photo' height='48' width='48' \/><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">Writing since Wednesday\u2026<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">Smelly Bob<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Danny might have hit the greatest shot since Nixon over Gersitz, only for it to be trumped&nbsp;<s>five minutes<\/s>&nbsp;four minutes and fifty-nine seconds later by the greatest shot in City of Tonawanda history\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were getting Cory\u2019s Gatorade bath ready, making arrangements for the victory parade, the mayor was on his way with the key to the city, ESPN was already negotiating with us for film rights&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was at this moment that E found out why they call him&nbsp;<strong>K<\/strong>nock-<strong>O<\/strong>ut, cancelling out the \u201cgreatest shot in Grinders history\u201d. I\u2019m not sure if they were just tired, confused or just so use to losing that they just accepted their fate. But the fans in the arena that day knew what had happened \u2013 the biggest robbery in league history had just occurred.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One onlooker described it as like a parent telling a kid \u201cIt\u2019s over because I said so\u201d. Someone needs to tell OMJ to adjust the stats for the game, add +1 steal for Kellen, because he stole that win. There hasn\u2019t been a robbery that big since they traded the island of Manhattan from Helmets ancestors for $24 worth of beads and trinkets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cory went from never having to buy his own drinks at the bar ever again one minute, to just a small footnote in Kellen\u2019s criminal history the next. All of this just one week after the biggest assault in league history. Can we let these escalating crimes continue? Or will the commissioner stand up to thugs like Kellen &amp; Curtiss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, it\u2019s safer to walk down Bailey Ave at night then to lace up shoes at the EBC gym.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only positive of the whole situation is that E\u2019s perfect season is still going strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny might have hit the greatest shot since Nixon over Gersitz, only for it to be trumped&nbsp;five minutes&nbsp;four minutes and fifty-nine seconds later by the greatest shot in City of Tonawanda history\u2026&nbsp; We were getting Cory\u2019s Gatorade bath ready, making arrangements for the victory parade, the mayor was on his way with the key to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/IMG_0493.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}