{"id":535653,"date":"2026-09-29T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=535653"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:38:20","slug":"shaquille-oneal-european-basketball-is-a-little-better-than-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shaquille-oneal-european-basketball-is-a-little-better-than-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O&#8217;Neal: &#8220;European basketball is a little better than the NBA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaquille O\u2019Neal has arrived in Lithuania ahead of the EuroLeague matchup between Zalgiris Kaunas and reigning champions Olympiacos. The NBA legend, who recently became a NordVPN ambassador, will attend Zalgiris\u2019 first home game of the EuroLeague season at Zalgirio Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O\u2019Neal expects an intense atmosphere and also praised European basketball compared to the NBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know the European game is a little bit better than the NBA game. I know I\u2019m going to get a lot of flack for saying that, but guys over there, everybody plays hard all 38 games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaq then highlighted the difference with the NBA: \u201cWe got guys in the NBA, they kind of chill out until the All-Star Game or the playoffs or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking about the matchup, he added: \u201cThey\u2019re playing against the champs, and it\u2019s their first home game. So I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA legend has arrived in Lithuania for Zalgiris Kaunas-Olympiacos and praised the intensity and competitiveness of the EuroLeague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":348034,"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":true,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-535653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/shaq.jpg.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535653","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535654,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535653\/revisions\/535654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535653"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=535653"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=535653"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=535653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}