{"id":152502,"date":"2020-06-14T17:13:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=152502"},"modified":"2020-06-14T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T15:16:25","slug":"john-collins-thinks-that-he-and-trae-young-are-best-nba-young-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/john-collins-thinks-that-he-and-trae-young-are-best-nba-young-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"John Collins thinks that he and Trae Young are best NBA young duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Atlanta Hawks&#8217; 2019-20 exit interview,\u00a0 John Collins said that he believes that he and Trae Young are the best young duo in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The big man added that he hopes to extend his contract this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Before the suspension the former Wake Forest was one of the five\u00a0<a title=\"NBA\" href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/league\/2019\/3\/nba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBA<\/a>\u00a0players with more than 20 points and 10 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 21.6 points, 10.1 rebounds and 1.6 blocks, shooting a big-time 64% from two points, 40.1% from 3-point range and 80% from the foul line.<\/p>\n<p>Young was fourth top scorer of the league with 29.6 points per game, and the second for assist behind Lebron James with 9.3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins is being (very) clear that he wants an extension done this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sooner rather than later&quot; when asked about the potential of doing a deal now when compared to when he hits free agency.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Rowland (@BTRowland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTRowland\/status\/1271495356753350657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins says he believes he&#39;ll be in All-Star contention next season.<\/p>\n<p>He also says he believes that he and Trae Young are the best young duo in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Rowland (@BTRowland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTRowland\/status\/1271493487893057544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Collins was one of the five\u00a0NBA\u00a0players with more than 20 points and 10 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[1458,3092],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-152502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks-2","tag-john-collins-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152502"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=152502"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=152502"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=152502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}