{"id":384105,"date":"2024-04-20T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=384105"},"modified":"2024-04-20T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T17:37:24","slug":"lebron-james-nikola-jokic-hes-one-of-the-best-players-to-ever-play-this-game-its-that-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-nikola-jokic-hes-one-of-the-best-players-to-ever-play-this-game-its-that-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James: Nikola Jokic? He\u2019s one of the best players to ever play this game. It\u2019s that simple&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James had some really big words for Nikola Jokic before Game 1 of the first-round Playoff series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s one of the best players to ever play this game. It\u2019s that simple. He does everything. The most important thing is he changes the way his teammates think about their own play. When you\u2019re able to inspire your teammates to play at a level that sometimes they don\u2019t even feel like they can play at, that\u2019s a true testament of a great one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James emphasizes the Serbian big man&#8217;s talents both as a passer and a scorer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have the ability to score at will, it makes your passing even more dynamic. We&#8217;ve had great passers in our league history. We&#8217;ve had great guys that are very unselfish. But if that&#8217;s all you can do, then teams can try to force you to score and kind of take that away. Guys like Luka, Magic in his prime, Joker, myself, if you try to take away our passing, we can still be effective. That&#8217;s what makes us so dynamic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James talks Nikola Jokic, his health, appreciating being in the playoffs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H1Xhvvxg1h\">pic.twitter.com\/H1Xhvvxg1h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jovanbuha\/status\/1781456720427921789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2024<\/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>Nuggets and Lakers set to hit the court tonight for Game 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":384104,"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-384105","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\/2024\/04\/lebron-james-nikola-jokic-playoff.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384105","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=384105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384105"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=384105"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=384105"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=384105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}