{"id":492750,"date":"2026-04-13T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492750"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:38:23","slug":"lebron-james-and-brandon-ingram-named-nba-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-and-brandon-ingram-named-nba-players-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James and Brandon Ingram named NBA Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1927\" data-end=\"2286\"><strong data-start=\"1973\" data-end=\"1989\">LeBron James<\/strong> was named the <strong data-start=\"2004\" data-end=\"2045\">Western Conference Player of the Week<\/strong>, while <strong data-start=\"2053\" data-end=\"2071\">Brandon Ingram<\/strong> took the award in the East. For the <strong data-start=\"2108\" data-end=\"2130\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> star, the recognition arrives just as L.A. heads into the postseason as the <strong data-start=\"2207\" data-end=\"2221\">No. 4 seed<\/strong> in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2288\" data-end=\"2663\">On the Raptors side, the award fits into a strong finish to the season. Toronto locked up the <strong data-start=\"2382\" data-end=\"2396\">No. 5 seed<\/strong> in the East and will face the <strong data-start=\"2427\" data-end=\"2450\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> in the first round. In recent days, Ingram also delivered a <strong data-start=\"2511\" data-end=\"2523\">38-point<\/strong> performance against Miami and then added <strong data-start=\"2565\" data-end=\"2578\">25 points<\/strong> in the regular-season finale against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2665\" data-end=\"2872\">For LeBron, the honor adds another marker to his extraordinary longevity. For Ingram, it is further proof of the impact he has made in Toronto heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2874\" data-end=\"2953\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has rewarded two star veterans in the final week of the regular season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":492749,"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-492750","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\/04\/HFzxkgBasAAvl5I.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492750","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=492750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492750"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492750"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492750"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}