code: def _get_json(endpoint, params, referer='scores'):
      
      h = dict(HEADERS)
      h['referer'] = 'http://stats.nba.com/{ref}/'.format(ref=referer)
      _get = get(BASE_URL.format(endpoint=endpoint), params=params,
                 headers=h)
      # print _get.url
      _get.raise_for_status()
      return _get.json()
docs: Internal method to streamline our requests / json getting
  
      Args:
          endpoint (str): endpoint to be called from the API
          params (dict): parameters to be passed to the API
  
      Raises:
          HTTPError: if requests hits a status code != 200
  
      Returns:
          json (json): json object for selected API call