{"id":331453,"date":"2023-05-19T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T08:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=331453"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T08:45:01","slug":"mike-malone-you-win-game-1-and-all-everybody-talked-about-was-the-laker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-malone-you-win-game-1-and-all-everybody-talked-about-was-the-laker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Malone: You win Game 1 and all everybody talked about was the Laker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of the Denver Nuggets, Mike Malone, did not hold back his irritation after his team&#8217;s victory in Game 2 against the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite the brilliant performance of Nikola Jokic, it seems that all eyes are on the Lakers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mike Malone goes off on the narratives surrounding the Lakers and Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe national narrative [after Game 1] was that the Lakers were fine. No one talked about Nikola having a historic performance. The narrative wasn\u2019t about the Nuggets.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3beMDQfb4f\">pic.twitter.com\/3beMDQfb4f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentral\/status\/1659404616037965824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those that don&#8217;t know him, he&#8217;s got 13 playoff triple-doubles now,\u201d Malone sneered after Game 2. &#8220;It&#8217;s just incredible what he continues to do on a nightly basis on the biggest stage in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou win Game 1 and all everybody talked about was the Lakers,\u201d Malone said. &#8220;Let\u2019s be honest, the national narrative was, \u2018Hey, the Lakers are fine. They\u2019re down 1-0, but they figured something out.\u2019 No one talked about how Nikola just had an historic performance. He\u2019s got 13 (playoff) triple-doubles now, third all-time. What he\u2019s doing is just incredible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut their narrative wasn\u2019t about the Nuggets. The narrative wasn\u2019t about Nikola. The narrative was about the Lakers and their adjustments. So you know, you put that in your pipe and you smoke it, you come back and you know what, we\u2019re gonna go up 2-0.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of the Denver Nuggets, Mike Malone, did not hold back his irritation after his team&#8217;s victory in Game 2 against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":331452,"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":[1162,6448],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-331453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-denver-nuggets-en","tag-mike-malone-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Schermata-2023-05-19-alle-10.38.46.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331453","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=331453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331453"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=331453"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=331453"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=331453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}