{"id":478181,"date":"2026-01-10T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478181"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:23:46","slug":"deni-avdija-responds-to-tari-easons-zebras-comment-it-made-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/deni-avdija-responds-to-tari-easons-zebras-comment-it-made-me-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Deni Avdija Responds to Tari Eason\u2019s \u201cZebras\u201d Comment: \u201cIt Made Me Laugh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"645\">Speaking to <em data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"593\">MrBuckBuck<\/em>, Avdija explained his perspective on the situation:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"1043\">\n<p data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"1043\">&#8220;It made me laugh, for real. Honestly, let&#8217;s address it. I drive the most in the league, I&#8217;m very physical, I don&#8217;t shy away from contact. I&#8217;m going downhill. I don&#8217;t care who&#8217;s in front of me, I&#8217;m going straight through him. I don&#8217;t play for those fouls, but I&#8217;m going to get fouled. It&#8217;s a part of the game. I can&#8217;t control it. I&#8217;m very aggressive. I initiate the contact, and that&#8217;s my game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1045\" data-end=\"1404\">\n<p data-start=\"1047\" data-end=\"1404\">I&#8217;m just saying, if it&#8217;s hard to stop, you&#8217;ve got to own it or do something else. But I&#8217;m very humble, I work hard and I make the right play every time. I wouldn&#8217;t say it was an excuse, it was just &#8230; [Eason] was emotional after the game, so I didn&#8217;t take it like that. I&#8217;ve been emotional after losses, too, so I get it. But it&#8217;s fun that we overcame it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1580\">Avdija emphasized that his aggressive, downhill style naturally leads to contact and fouls, framing the exchange as part of the competitive emotions that follow a tough game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wizards forward shrugs off referee accusations after physical performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":478180,"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-478181","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\/2026\/01\/Deni_Avdija_1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478181","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=478181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478181"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478181"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478181"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}