{"id":681438,"date":"2026-03-27T05:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681438\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:12:52","slug":"that-time-back-in-2005-manu-ginobili-sported-the-sampson-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681438\/","title":{"rendered":"That time back in 2005 Manu Ginobili sported the Sampson look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Vault!<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2005, the Spurs would eventually go on to win the franchise&#8217;s third championship and maybe, just maybe they were powered by the Sampson Theory.  You know, the longer the hair the stronger you get?  From Manu Ginobili&#8217;s perspective anyway.  Manu says he grew his hair out because he was too lazy to cut it.  Teammates Tony Parker, Brent Barry and Bruce have their thoughts as well, they&#8217;re just not as kind.  Enjoy the short clip from the 2005 Western Conference Playoffs, courtesy of your friends at Max Sports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From The Vault! Back in 2005, the Spurs would eventually go on to win the franchise&#8217;s third championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-681438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-sanantoniospurs","14":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116299430762676051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}