{"id":12665,"date":"2010-06-03T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=12665"},"modified":"2010-06-03T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T17:02:48","slug":"carlos-boozer-on-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/carlos-boozer-on-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Boozer on Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

As one who has turned into something of\u00a0 Boozer-apologist this past year in the face of attacks on him by some disgruntled Jazz fans, I was buoyed to see an account<\/a> of a recent Boozer interview yesterday in the Deseret News.<\/p>\n

When the Miami-area sports station host interviewing Boozer called Utah\u00a0 “gorgeous” but “a horrible place to live, horrible,” Boozer said:<\/p>\n

“Nah, it’s not that bad. You know, I’m raising my kids out there. It’s pretty nice.\u00a0 We have a good time out there with our basketball team, successful of course. That’s the frontcourt of it, the most important thing of it. And it’s a great place to raise your kids. And it is beautiful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The host kept at it though, asking: “But those Mormon people are crazy, aren’t they? I mean, the Mor…” At which point Boozer, cut in saying:\u00a0 “Nah, they’re not bad at all. They’re not bad at all. Yeah. Not bad at all.”<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping Utah is able to keep him (and draft a decent center)… or next season could be a painful one for Jazz fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As one who has turned into something of\u00a0 Boozer-apologist this past year in the face of attacks on him by some disgruntled Jazz fans, I was buoyed to see an account of a recent Boozer interview yesterday in the Deseret News. When the Miami-area sports station host interviewing Boozer called Utah\u00a0 “gorgeous” but “a horrible place to live, horrible,” Boozer said: “Nah, it’s not that bad. You know, I’m raising my kids out there. It’s pretty nice.\u00a0 We have a good time out there with our basketball team, successful of course. That’s the frontcourt of it, the most important thing of it. And it’s a great place to raise your kids. And it is beautiful.” The host kept at it though, asking: “But those Mormon people are crazy, aren’t they? I mean, the Mor…” At which point Boozer, cut in saying:\u00a0 “Nah, they’re not bad at all. They’re not bad at all. Yeah. Not bad at all.” Here’s hoping Utah is able to keep him (and draft a decent center)… or next season could be a painful one for Jazz fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12667,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions\/12667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}