{"id":476755,"date":"2026-01-01T19:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476755"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:36:39","slug":"tyrese-maxey-on-playing-in-philadelphia-if-youre-not-tough-this-is-not-the-place-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tyrese-maxey-on-playing-in-philadelphia-if-youre-not-tough-this-is-not-the-place-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey on Playing in Philadelphia: \u201cIf You\u2019re Not Tough, This Is Not the Place for You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"455\"><strong data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"323\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Tyrese Maxey<\/span><\/span><\/strong> spoke candidly about what it means to play in Philadelphia, highlighting the demanding but passionate nature of the city\u2019s fanbase.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"457\" data-end=\"617\">Appearing on <em data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"485\">NBA Courtside<\/em>, the <strong data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"532\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/span><\/span><\/strong> guard made it clear that playing in Philly requires mental toughness and resilience.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"766\">\u201cI love it. It\u2019s definitely a tough place to play,\u201d Maxey said. \u201cIf you\u2019re not tough, if you don\u2019t have thick skin, this is not the place for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"905\">Maxey explained that Philadelphia fans are known for holding players accountable, but also for showing deep loyalty once trust is earned.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"907\" data-end=\"1001\">\u201cThe fans are going to hold you accountable,\u201d he added. \u201cBut if they love you, they love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1194\">The young star\u2019s comments underline the unique pressure \u2014 and reward \u2014 of playing in one of the NBA\u2019s most intense markets, where effort and competitiveness are valued as much as performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Maxey spoke candidly about what it means to play in Philadelphia, highlighting the demanding but passionate nature of the city\u2019s fanbase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":371864,"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-476755","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\/Philadelphia-76ers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476755","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=476755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476755"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476755"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476755"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}