{"id":461233,"date":"2025-09-24T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=461233"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:50:59","slug":"chris-anstey-simmons-would-absolutely-not-dominate-the-nbl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chris-anstey-simmons-would-absolutely-not-dominate-the-nbl\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Anstey: Simmons would absolutely not dominate the NBL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"918\" data-end=\"1145\">Two-time Olympian and NBL legend <strong data-start=\"951\" data-end=\"967\">Chris Anstey<\/strong> dismissed the idea that <strong data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1007\">Ben Simmons<\/strong> could dominate in the Australian league. \u201cAbsolutely not \u2013 I think that\u2019s disrespectful to so many players here,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nbl.com.au\/news\/anstey-simmons-would-absolutely-not-dominate-nbl\">he said on <em data-start=\"1133\" data-end=\"1142\">NBL Now<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1147\" data-end=\"1307\">\u201cHe\u2019s a big guard or a small big, but he can\u2019t shoot and would get fouled a lot,\u201d Anstey added, pointing out the limits of the three-time NBA All Star\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1309\" data-end=\"1485\">NBL owner Larry Kestelman took a different stance: \u201cSimmons is too good a talent not to be playing. I\u2019d love to chat with him \u2013 a deal in the NBL could reignite his passion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Anstey, due volte olimpionico ed ex MVP della NBL, ha respinto l\u2019idea che Ben Simmons potrebbe dominare nel campionato australiano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":270673,"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":[389,399,391],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-461233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-nba","category-new-zeland"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/FP9jbesakAEX_EV.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461233","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=461233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461233"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=461233"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=461233"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=461233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}