{"id":104,"date":"2007-07-03T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/03\/character-counts\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T17:49:15","slug":"character-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/character-counts","title":{"rendered":"Character Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/godandculture.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/fisher1.jpg\" title=\"fisher1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/godandculture.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/fisher1.jpg\" alt=\"fisher1.jpg\" height=\"365\" style=\"width:205px;height:320px;\" \/><\/a>Derek Fisher, a point guard for the NBA&#8217;s Utah Jazz, has requested &#8211; and has been granted &#8211; a release from his contract. According to Sports Illustrated the Jazz acquired Fisher a year ago. Prior to that he had spent eight seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and was part of three NBA championship runs.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s up? Did Fisher suddenly decide he doesn&#8217;t like Utah? Not enough money? Not enough prestige? None of the above. Fisher wants to relocate his family to a city that has the best combination of medical providers who can treat his 11-month old daughter who was recently diagnosed with cancer of the eye. He&#8217;s willing to give up his career to do that. &#8220;Life for me outweighs the game of basketball,&#8221; he recently told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>While he hasn&#8217;t ruled out playing for another NBA team, he wonders aloud that because he is 33 years old, 6&#8217;1&#8221; tall, and only averaged 10 points per game for the Jazz whether any team would want him. A professional team in any sport would be foolish to pass on the opportunity to have a man with this kind of character and integrity in their clubhouse, influencing the other players, regardless of whether he ever scored another point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Fisher, a point guard for the NBA&#8217;s Utah Jazz, has requested &#8211; and has been granted &#8211; a release from his contract. According to Sports Illustrated the Jazz acquired Fisher a year ago. Prior to that he had spent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/character-counts\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}