{"id":27475,"date":"2024-01-11T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=27475"},"modified":"2024-01-11T12:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:57:54","slug":"thursday-update-2-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/11\/thursday-update-2-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update 2 &#8211; news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took overtime for the Memphis Tigers to defeat UT-San Antonio 107-101 last night at FedExForum. Next up: On the road at Wichita State at noon Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-grizzlies\/article\/41050\/memphis-grizzlies-bismack-biyombo-vince-williams-jr-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waived<\/a> C Bismack Biyombo in order to open up a roster spot to sign former two-way player Vince Williams Jr. to a 3-year deal. This means heavy minutes at center for Xavier Tillman Sr. in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In other Grizz news, G Marcus Smart <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/memphis-grizzlies-marcus-smart-out-for-6-weeks-due-to-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be out<\/a> for 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Today is National Hot Toddy Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/weather\/weather-weather\/wednesday-winter-weather-update-from-60-to-sub-freezing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From 60 to sub-freezing<\/a>: That&#8217;s our next 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all, I don&#8217;t know if my posts are going to be very long or frequent through Wednesday. The hotel I&#8217;m in has Wi-Fi but the connection speed is reminiscent of a 2400 baud modem connection from 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, I now have a second hotel reservation next Wednesday (the 17th) through the following Monday. Thanks to the people who set that up.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. This Wi-Fi is killing me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took overtime for the Memphis Tigers to defeat UT-San Antonio 107-101 last night at FedExForum. Next up: On the road at Wichita State at noon Sunday. The Grizzlies have waived C Bismack Biyombo in order to open up a roster spot to sign former two-way player Vince Williams Jr. to a 3-year deal. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/11\/thursday-update-2-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday update 2 &#8211; news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27478,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27475\/revisions\/27478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->