{"id":297034,"date":"2022-10-05T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=297034"},"modified":"2022-10-05T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:34:55","slug":"santi-aldama-among-favorites-for-power-forward-position-in-grizzlies-starting-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/santi-aldama-among-favorites-for-power-forward-position-in-grizzlies-starting-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Santi Aldama among favorites for power forward position in Grizzlies&#8217; starting five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama is among the main candidates considered by coach Jenkins to replace the injured Jaren Jackson Jr in the starting five.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the 21-year-old Spanish talent scored 21 points with six rebounds and an excellent 4\/5 from long range in the preseason game against the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s just playing with confidence and operating with confidence every single day he walks in the building,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/eu.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/grizzlies\/2022\/10\/03\/memphis-grizzlies-santi-aldama-starting-option-for-jaren-jackson-jr\/69515341007\/\"> Jenkins said.<\/a> &#8220;I&#8217;m seeing a lot of great things on the defensive side with his activity; offensively with his cutting, shot-making ability, playmaking ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies coach will continue to experiment with different combinations, but Aldama is confident: &#8220;I think I&#8217;m in the spot I wanted to be in. But like I said, it&#8217;s not going to stop here. We got to keep building as a team and myself as an individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santi Aldama 21 pts 4 threes 6 rebs vs Magic 2022 Preseason\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ln71sakB2a4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aldama was the No.30 pick of the 2021 NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":297033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-297034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/Santi-Aldama.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297034","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=297034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297034"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=297034"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=297034"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=297034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}