{"id":454903,"date":"2025-08-10T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=454903"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:25:32","slug":"pep-guardiola-says-curry-doncic-and-lebron-are-his-favorite-nba-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pep-guardiola-says-curry-doncic-and-lebron-are-his-favorite-nba-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola says Curry, Doncic and Lebron are his favorite NBA Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"30\" data-end=\"318\">Pep Guardiola, widely recognized as a football legend, has long shown that his sporting interests extend well beyond the pitch. A passionate basketball fan, as he has often stated, Guardiola recently described the sport as \u201ca huge part of his life\u201d during a press conference in Palermo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pep Guardiola: &#8220;The NBA has always been important in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also in Palermo tonight: City&#8217;s boss lauded Boston for extending the contract of friend Joe Mazzulla &#8212; &#8220;I love it&#8221; &#8212; and named Stephen Curry, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and LeBron James as his favorite modern players post-MJ. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/filkN3zhmD\">https:\/\/t.co\/filkN3zhmD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1954332122791166183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"670\">He also congratulated his close friend <strong data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"375\">Joe Mazzulla<\/strong> on signing a contract extension with the <strong data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"435\">Boston Celtics<\/strong>. Speaking to reporters, and as relayed by Marc Stein, Guardiola was asked to name his favorite current NBA players. His answer: <strong data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"581\">Stephen Curry<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"598\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"620\">LeBron James<\/strong>\u2014his top picks from the post-Michael Jordan era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola, widely recognized as a football legend, has long shown that his sporting interests extend well beyond the pitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":454904,"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-454903","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\/2025\/08\/Gx8OrP7WgAAoHEk.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454903","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454903"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=454903"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=454903"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=454903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}