{"id":463713,"date":"2025-10-09T19:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=463713"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:44:24","slug":"rookie-ace-bailey-turns-heads-in-preseason-debut-draws-praise-from-kevin-durant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rookie-ace-bailey-turns-heads-in-preseason-debut-draws-praise-from-kevin-durant\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Ace Bailey Turns Heads in Preseason Debut, Draws Praise from Kevin Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"361\">Utah Jazz rookie <strong>Ace Bailey<\/strong> scored a team-high 25 points, adding 6 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals in the preseason game against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"489\">The 5th overall pick of the last NBA Draft showcased a variety of mid-range moves, knocking down 11 of his 16 shots.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"579\">After the game, Kevin Durant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/jazz\/news\/ace-bailey-impresses-in-utah-jazz-preseason-debut-vs-houston-rockets\">had some high praise<\/a> for the Jazz\u2019s promising talent:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"847\">\n<p data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"847\">\u201cDynamic player\u2026 I think he\u2019s gonna be a helluva player. I love the coaching staff that he\u2019s with, I love that he got drafted to Utah. Good development program over there. I\u2019m expecting a big year and a big career for him \u2014 and tonight he showed what he can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dominating 10 points in the third on his way to dropping 25 in his rookie preseason debut \ud83c\udccf<\/p>\n<p>Check out the highlights \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TakeNote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TakeNote<\/a> presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZionsBank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zionsbank<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oHK9DwCQa5\">pic.twitter.com\/oHK9DwCQa5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahjazz\/status\/1976120898198380669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/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>Bailey was the 5th overall pick of the 2025 NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":463716,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-463713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/ace-bailey-utah-jazz-1.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463713","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463713"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=463713"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=463713"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=463713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}