{"id":5699,"date":"2011-04-18T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2011-04-18T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:15:30","slug":"chris-paul-leads-hornets-past-lakers-in-stunning-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5699","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul Leads Hornets Past Lakers  In Stunning Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; <strong>Chris Paul <\/strong>and a few teammates sneaked across the street from their hotel to Staples Center the night before the New Orleans Hornets began the postseason, eagerly hoisting up a few shots in the shadows of the Lakers&#8217; imposing championship banners.<\/p>\n<p>With their tumultuous regular season finally a memory, <strong>Paul <\/strong>said the Hornets were almost unbearably eager for the playoffs to start.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s why New Orleans got the drop on the defending champs in a stunning series opener.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul<\/strong> had 33 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds, flawlessly leading the Hornets down the stretch of a 109-100 victory Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carl Landry<\/strong> scored 17 points and<strong> Jarrett Jack<\/strong> added 15 for the seventh-seeded Hornets, who overcame Los Angeles&#8217; major size advantage with cagey defense and a disciplined offensive approach that led to just three turnovers, tying an NBA playoff record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Chris Paul and a few teammates sneaked across the street from their hotel to Staples Center the night before the New Orleans Hornets began the postseason, eagerly hoisting up a few shots in the shadows of the Lakers&#8217; imposing championship banners. With their tumultuous regular season finally a memory, Paul said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}