{"id":515401,"date":"2026-09-14T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=515401"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:34:46","slug":"ben-wallace-pistons-would-not-have-won-title-with-carmelo-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ben-wallace-pistons-would-not-have-won-title-with-carmelo-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Wallace: Pistons would not have won title with Carmelo Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1383\">Ben Wallace has no regrets about the Detroit Pistons selecting Darko Mili\u010di\u0107 ahead of Carmelo Anthony with the second overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1385\" data-end=\"1554\">\u201cIf we would\u2019ve drafted Carmelo, I honestly don\u2019t think we would\u2019ve ever won a championship,\u201d Wallace said on <em data-start=\"1495\" data-end=\"1510\">2 Bright Guys<\/em>. \u201cMelo would\u2019ve wanted to play right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1751\">Wallace believes giving Anthony an immediate role could have disrupted Detroit\u2019s chemistry. The Pistons went on to win the 2004 NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Detroit center believes drafting Anthony could have disrupted the chemistry of the eventual champions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372595,"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-515401","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\/Detroit-Pistons.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515401","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=515401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515401"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=515401"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=515401"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=515401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}