{"id":425585,"date":"2025-01-27T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T07:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=425585"},"modified":"2025-01-27T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T07:06:28","slug":"jusuf-nurkic-on-suns-benching-no-relationship-with-budenholzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jusuf-nurkic-on-suns-benching-no-relationship-with-budenholzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jusuf Nurkic on Suns benching: \u2018No relationship\u2019 with Budenholzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic expressed his frustration with his diminished role and lack of communication with coach Mike Budenholzer. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a relationship,\u201d Nurkic told The Arizona Republic. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to stay professional, work hard, and be ready for whatever happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nurkic, who averaged 8.6 points and 9.2 rebounds this season, has been benched since Jan. 7. Budenholzer replaced him in the starting lineup with Mason Plumlee and later Nick Richards, who has impressed with recent performances, including a 20-point, 19-rebound game.<\/p>\n<p>Budenholzer responded to Nurkic\u2019s remarks, acknowledging the challenge of managing rotations. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna go with who gives us the best chance. You\u2019ve gotta earn your minutes,\u201d he said. Despite the situation, Nurkic believes he will remain with the Suns past the Feb. 6 trade deadline but is ready for any outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was what it is. Life is not fair,\u201d Nurkic added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/43567084\/suns-jusuf-nurkic-says-budenholzer-relationship\">Fonte: The Arizona Republic, ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suns&#8217; center opens up about his reduced role and strained dynamic with the head coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374015,"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-425585","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\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425585","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=425585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425585"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=425585"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=425585"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=425585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}