{"id":331317,"date":"2023-05-18T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=331317"},"modified":"2023-05-18T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:51:19","slug":"mike-james-there-are-no-favorites-in-the-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-there-are-no-favorites-in-the-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James: There are no favorites in the Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike James has stated that neither history nor tradition play a role in the Final Four. Not even the matches of the regular season factor into it.<\/p>\n<p>About the Final Four, he said, &#8220;We are happy to be here. I&#8217;ve been in a Final Four back in 2016, but it feels like my first time. I&#8217;m trying to enjoy the moment and I&#8217;m hoping to secure two victories&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned about Monaco possibly being the favorite in the semi-final against Olympiacos because they beat them twice in the regular season, he replied, &#8220;There are no favorites in the Final Four. You simply step onto the court and play. They say it&#8217;s difficult to beat a team three times. But a semi-final is just one game and there are no favorites in such matches&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">\ud83d\udcf8 \u00a9\ufe0f Direction de la Communication \/ Manuel Vitali <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2jcKzCZMH3\">pic.twitter.com\/2jcKzCZMH3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AS Monaco Basket \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde8 (@ASMonaco_Basket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASMonaco_Basket\/status\/1659157992988704771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2023<\/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>Mike James has stated that neither history nor tradition play a role in the Final Four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":331316,"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":[82],"tags":[1659,1310],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-331317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","tag-as-monaco-en","tag-mike-james-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/FwaDXXqWYAEe1xI.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331317","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331317"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=331317"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=331317"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=331317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}