{"id":213427,"date":"2021-05-02T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=213427"},"modified":"2021-05-02T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T08:11:52","slug":"james-borrego-says-lamelo-ball-is-clearly-the-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/james-borrego-says-lamelo-ball-is-clearly-the-rookie-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"James Borrego says Lamelo Ball &#8216;is clearly&#8217; the rookie of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Hornets coach James Borrego believes LaMelo Ball deserves the rookie of the year award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, I think he is clearly the rookie of the year. And I think he will prove that over these next 10 games as well. But I think he&#8217;s already done enough to get there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ball, the third overall pick of the last NBA Draft, is averaging 15.8 points, 5.9 rebounds, 6.2 assist and 1.6 steals per game, shooting 45% from the field, 37% from beyond the arc and 78% from the foul line.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;To me, I think he is clearly the rookie of the year. And I think he will prove that over these next 10 games as well. But I think he&#39;s already done enough to get there.&quot; James Borrego on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MELOD1P?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MELOD1P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rod Boone (@rodboone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rodboone\/status\/1388605685005492229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2021<\/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>Ball had 11 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds in last night&#8217;s victory over the Detroit Pistons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":200231,"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":[540,1306],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-213427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-charlotte-hornets-en","tag-lamelo-ball-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/LaMelo-Ball.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213427","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=213427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213427"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=213427"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=213427"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=213427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}