{"id":386067,"date":"2024-05-02T17:17:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=386067"},"modified":"2024-05-02T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:17:42","slug":"dallas-mavericks-derrick-jones-jr-i-fought-to-be-here-and-doncic-very-very-underrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-derrick-jones-jr-i-fought-to-be-here-and-doncic-very-very-underrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks, Derrick Jones Jr: &#8220;I fought to be here,&#8221; and Doncic: &#8220;Very very underrated&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the Dallas Mavericks&#8217; win over the Los Angeles Clippers, Derrick Jones Jr. spoke at a press conference and reflected on his history and how hard he had to work to get to this point. These are his statements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Derrick Jones Jr. on his story<\/strong>: &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t drafted. I found myself in situations where I shouldn&#8217;t have been on the roster or playing&#8230; I fought to be here, to get a roster spot, to get in the rotation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/doncic-scores-35-points-to-lead-dallas-mavericks-to-victory-highlights-of-luka-magic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a> commented on X&#8217;s words, expressing his appreciation for his teammate by writing a net: &#8220;Very, very, very underrated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Very very underrated!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s99fdDZpZC\">https:\/\/t.co\/s99fdDZpZC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luka Doncic (@luka7doncic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luka7doncic\/status\/1785915146113786063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 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>Derrick Jones Jr. after winning Game 5 with his Dallas Mavericks talked about his story, words also commented by Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":371868,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-386067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386067","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386067"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=386067"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=386067"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=386067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}