{"id":514179,"date":"2026-09-08T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514179"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:19:09","slug":"olden-polynice-blasts-tracy-mcgrady-championships-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olden-polynice-blasts-tracy-mcgrady-championships-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Olden Polynice blasts Tracy McGrady: \u201cChampionships matter\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1319\">Olden Polynice disagreed with Tracy McGrady\u2019s recent claim that an MVP award should be valued more highly than an NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1428\">\u201cT-Mac, I\u2019ve never read your book, <em data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1375\">Things Losers Say<\/em>,\u201d Polynice replied. \u201cStop it. Championships matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1596\">McGrady argued that championships depend on teammates, ownership, management and health, while an MVP award more directly reflects an individual player\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former NBA center strongly rejected McGrady\u2019s argument that winning MVP carries more individual weight than winning a championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":514178,"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-514179","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\/09\/98gefibfg32.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514179","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=514179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514179"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514179"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514179"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}