{"id":535976,"date":"2026-09-30T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=535976"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:27:36","slug":"mike-james-on-the-schedule-i-get-to-hoop-for-a-living-i-wish-it-was-more-damn-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-on-the-schedule-i-get-to-hoop-for-a-living-i-wish-it-was-more-damn-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James on the schedule: \u201cI get to hoop for a living. I wish it was more damn games\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mike James: \u201cY\u2019all gotta stop letting these people bitch and complain\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike James took to social media to respond to the ongoing criticism surrounding the European basketball schedule, particularly the number of games and the amount of travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Anadolu Efes<\/strong> guard wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSeason too long. Omg it\u2019s too many games so much travel\u2026\u2026. Yall gotta stop letting these people bitch and complain all year and summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cIt\u2019s 38 games over eight damn months\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James then pointed out the number of EuroLeague games:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s 38 games in the season over 8 damn months. I get to hoop for a living. I wish it was more damn games.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James\u2019 comments add another perspective to the ongoing debate surrounding the European basketball calendar, which remains a major topic because of the number of games and extensive travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Season too long. Omg it\u2019s too many games so much travel\u2026\u2026.<br><br>Yall gotta stop letting these people bitch and complain all year and summer.<br><br>It\u2019s 38 games in the season over 8 damn months. I get to hoop for a living. I wish it was more damn games<\/p>&mdash; Mike James (@TheNatural_05) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheNatural_05\/status\/2105045073310482619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source: Mike James \/ X<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anadolu Efes star responded to the constant criticism over the length of the season, the number of games and the amount of travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":535969,"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":[315,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-535976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-alle-15.22.25.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535976","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535980,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535976\/revisions\/535980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535976"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=535976"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=535976"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=535976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}