{"id":309952,"date":"2022-12-26T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=309952"},"modified":"2022-12-26T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:08:33","slug":"lebron-james-on-dirk-nowitzki-hes-a-legend-the-greatest-international-player-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-on-dirk-nowitzki-hes-a-legend-the-greatest-international-player-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James on Dirk Nowitzki: He&#8217;s a legend, the greatest international player ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Christmas game against the Los Angeles Lakers, the Dallas Mavericks unveiled a statue dedicated to Dirk Nowitzki outside the American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James had some important words to honor the German superstar&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The statue had to be a fadeaway, one-legger. Dirk is a legend. He&#8217;s an icon. I think he&#8217;s the greatest international player ever. I put him right there with Manu (Ginobili)&#8230; That boy was cold man. Dirk was cold. He revolutionized what a stretch 4 big could look like&#8230;You couldn&#8217;t put a small player on him because he was too big, couldn&#8217;t put a slow big because he was too quick with his first step early on, and you can never block his shot&#8230;When you talk about the best power forwards of all time, Dirk is right there with Charles Barkley, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Kevin McHale..&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;He&#39;s a legend, he&#39;s an icon&#8230; that boy was cold.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>LeBron on Dirk&#39;s statue and legacy \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/81QoTVfxTA\">pic.twitter.com\/81QoTVfxTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1607184975681527808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2022<\/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>LeBron: When you talk about the best power forwards of all time, Dirk is right there with Charles Barkley, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Kevin McHale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":309864,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-309952","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\/12\/Fk19t-gXkAIKJFB.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309952","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=309952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309952"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=309952"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=309952"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=309952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}