{"id":225969,"date":"2021-07-14T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=225969"},"modified":"2021-07-14T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:08:11","slug":"tatum-i-never-wanted-to-just-get-to-the-nba-i-wanted-to-be-one-of-the-best-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tatum-i-never-wanted-to-just-get-to-the-nba-i-wanted-to-be-one-of-the-best-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatum: I never wanted to just get to the NBA, I wanted to be one of the best players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum \u00a0has major ambitions for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2021\/07\/12\/sports\/with-new-coach-fresh-motivation-celtics-star-jayson-tatum-wants-be-one-leagues-best\/\">via BostonGlobe<\/a>)\u201cIt\u2019s what I always wanted,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2021\/07\/12\/sports\/with-new-coach-fresh-motivation-celtics-star-jayson-tatum-wants-be-one-leagues-best\/\"> he said.<\/a> \u201cNo matter how old or young I was, I never looked at myself as one of the best young players in the league. I never like when people say that. I feel like I\u2019m one of the best players. That\u2019s what I envisioned when I was younger. That\u2019s what I worked for. I never wanted to just get to the NBA and be in the league, I wanted to be one of the best players.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former Duke forward ended his fourth year in the league with 26.4 points, 7.4 rebounds and 4.3 assist, shooting 46% from the field, 38% from beyond the arc and 87% from the foul line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Kemba Walker trade, the two-time All Star has become the highest paid player of the Boston Celtics<\/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":[542,2651],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-225969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics-en","tag-jayson-tatum-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\/225969","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=225969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225969"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=225969"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=225969"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=225969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}