{"id":423891,"date":"2025-01-16T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=423891"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:21:10","slug":"dennis-smith-jr-to-be-one-of-the-best-defenders-in-europe-at-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dennis-smith-jr-to-be-one-of-the-best-defenders-in-europe-at-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Smith Jr: “To be one of the best defenders in Europe at Real Madrid”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid has made official<\/a> the signing of Dennis Smith Jr, a former NBA player who made his first statements as a player for Los Blancos earlier today. Below are the words with which he introduced himself to his new fans.<\/p>\n

The words of Dennis Smith Jr<\/strong>: “Luka Doncic and Jordi Fernandez are two people I respect a lot, they are important in basketball and they are very good to me about the club and the city. Doncic said he loves Madrid, so I didn’t have to think much when I decided to come to Europe”.<\/p>\n

On making himself useful to the team<\/strong>: “I’m here to bring intensity, attack the iron, give assists to my teammates and be one of the best defenders in Europe. I have to have a winning mentality, help my teammates be the best they can be and fit in the locker room. I’m a guy that wants to do things the best I can. Before I came here, I watched my tapes from college and I noticed the difference between how I saw the game before and how I see it now. The most important thing for me is to help the team win”.<\/p>\n

On the level of European basketball<\/strong>: “Every game is competitive, every possession counts. The players here never relax, they always want to compete at the highest level. That is something that is in my DNA and I want to live it”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Smith Jr’s first words after his move to Real Madrid was made official: Here’s how he introduced himself to his new fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":423890,"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":[34,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-423891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GhaH2NsWAAAR36p.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423891","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=423891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423891"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=423891"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=423891"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=423891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}