{"id":222238,"date":"2021-06-27T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=222238"},"modified":"2021-06-27T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:23:24","slug":"deandre-ayton-chris-paul-was-the-best-thing-that-happened-to-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/deandre-ayton-chris-paul-was-the-best-thing-that-happened-to-my-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Deandre Ayton: Chris Paul was the best thing that happened to my career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the victory in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Phoenix Suns are one step away from the NBA Finals.<br \/>\nIn a physical and nervous game, with both teams shooting well below 40% from the field, Deandre Ayton was once again the MVP.<br \/>\nThe first overall pick of the 2018 NBA Draft ended with 19 points, 22 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DEANDRE. 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DOMINATION.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeandreAyton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DeandreAyton<\/a> scores 19 points while tallying <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAPlayoffs<\/a> career highs in boards (22) and blocks (4), putting the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Suns<\/a> up 3-1! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThatsGame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThatsGame<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Game 5 &#8211; Monday, 9pm\/et, ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tovZKKCbpi\">pic.twitter.com\/tovZKKCbpi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1409005662215024640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I love CP, man,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/31717937\/phoenix-suns-take-3-1-series-lead-inspired-get-chris-paul-first-trip-nba-finals\">said Ayton, 22.<\/a> &#8220;That&#8217;s really the only teammate that really pushed me. Like big bro-type push.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he was the best thing that happened to my career. I can say that every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns are one step away from the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":222156,"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":[691,1462,1546],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-222238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-chris-paul-en","tag-deandre-ayton-2","tag-phoenix-suns-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/deandre-ayton.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222238","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=222238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222238"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=222238"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=222238"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=222238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}