{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"How the NBA Off-Season Is Dominating Sports","description":"You know a sports league's in a nice place when it's enjoying a genuine cultural moment, without anyone actually playing the sport. That's where we find the NBA in late June, 2017, a few days before free agent hysteria has even started on July 1. Sure, the NFL off-season, anchored by the draft and player migrations from team to team, makes regular hay. Most baseball winters, some player signs a ludicrously rich free agent contract that carries a news cycle (e.g. Zack Greinke's six-year, $206.","author_name":"TIME's Top Stories","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/3380207-time-s-top-stories","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/28975896/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" src=\"https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/6061875/embed?v=202301\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Audioboom player\" allow=\"autoplay\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"></iframe>"}