{"id":21231,"date":"2010-02-03T17:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T01:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/boys-basketball-kentwood-nearly-knocks-off-oregon-powerhouse-slide-show\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T17:01:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T01:01:33","slug":"boys-basketball-kentwood-nearly-knocks-off-oregon-powerhouse-slide-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/boys-basketball-kentwood-nearly-knocks-off-oregon-powerhouse-slide-show\/","title":{"rendered":"BOYS BASKETBALL: Kentwood nearly knocks off Oregon powerhouse &#8211; SLIDE SHOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bright lights shined on the Kentwood High boys basketball team Tuesday night in a nationally televised game against Oregon powerhouse Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>In a game that featured two of the nation&#8217;s top-ranked recruits in Kentwood&#8217;s Josh Smith and Jefferson&#8217;s Terrence Jones, it was the Democrats who scratched out a narrow 42-39 win in a game that was shown live on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, the 13th ranked recruit in the nation, led the way with 20 points, four rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a 6-9 UCLA-bound center, held his own in a low-scoring affair, delivering a team-high nine points, but adding a season-high nine blocks and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Down 40-39 late in the fourth quarter, the Conquerors (9-5 in league, 9-9 overall) had a chance to go ahead, but couldn&#8217;t convert.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Boyce added eight points for Kentwood and Tre Tyler chipped in seven.<\/p>\n<p>Kentwood will wrap up the regular season on Friday at Kentlake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bright lights shined on the Kentwood High boys basketball team Tuesday night in a nationally televised game against Oregon powerhouse Jefferson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21231"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}