{"id":345929,"date":"2023-09-01T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=345929"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:18:29","slug":"simone-fontecchio-gigi-is-a-legend-what-he-did-today-is-just-the-cherry-on-top-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/simone-fontecchio-gigi-is-a-legend-what-he-did-today-is-just-the-cherry-on-top-of-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Fontecchio: Gigi is a legend. What he did today is just the cherry on top of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Fontecchio, in a post-match interview picked up by pianetabasket.com, commented on his remarkable 30-point performance against Serbia. &#8220;What can I say? I am truly happy about the victory. We did great work, especially in the third quarter where we didn&#8217;t give up despite being 16 points behind. That was key. Whether we are 16 points behind or ahead, we keep fighting to the end. This is the result,&#8221; said Fontecchio.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to commend teammate Luigi &#8216;Gigi&#8217; Datome, stating, &#8220;Gigi is a legend. What he did today is just the cherry on top of his career. He led us from being 16 points down, at the age of 36 or 37, I don&#8217;t know. It was simply amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fontecchio added, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I could help the team by scoring, but I think I can contribute in various ways\u2014even if I score zero points, by playing defense, grabbing rebounds or passing the ball. Was this the best day I&#8217;ve ever had with the national team? I don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;ll see how important this game turns out to be in a few days. But it has certainly been one of the most beautiful evenings I&#8217;ve experienced with the national team. I hope it will mean a lot in a couple of days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Fontecchio, in a post-match interview picked up by pianetabasket.com, commented on his remarkable 30-point performance against Serbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":345928,"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":[379],"tags":[9704],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-345929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italbasket","tag-simone-fontecchio-en-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/Fontecchio.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345929","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=345929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345929"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=345929"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=345929"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=345929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}