{"id":513767,"date":"2026-09-05T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=513767"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:21:14","slug":"patrick-beverley-there-are-nba-superstars-right-now-who-couldnt-play-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/patrick-beverley-there-are-nba-superstars-right-now-who-couldnt-play-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Beverley: &#8220;There are NBA superstars right now who couldn\u2019t play in Europe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Beverley, a guest on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1qnB0A1swQQ?si=A924zpd-wgsrojWz\">Thanalysis<\/a>, Thanasis Antetokounmpo\u2019s podcast, spoke about the differences between European and NBA basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>It\u2019s not a disrespect to everyone\u2019s game physically on what they can do, it\u2019s just mentality wise. There are NBA superstars right now who couldn\u2019t play in Europe. I truly believe that. They simply couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beverley explained that there are differences both on and off the court:\u00a0<em>\u201cThe adjustment is completely different. Everything revolves around the team. The coach controls everything. It\u2019s almost like a college team made up of adults. The team comes before each individual. You sometimes share a hotel room with a teammate. Travel isn\u2019t organized for your comfort like it is in the NBA, even though it\u2019s improved tremendously. And in the game, you can decide: \u2018We\u2019re not taking any shots until there are six seconds left on the clock.\u2019 Everything is built on defense. It\u2019s totally different.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Beverley was a guest on Thanalysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":509092,"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":[197,199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-513767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/patrick-Beverley-photo-fiba.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513767","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513767"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=513767"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=513767"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=513767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}