{"id":543629,"date":"2026-10-03T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=543629"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:32:08","slug":"demar-derozan-to-come-off-the-bench-for-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/demar-derozan-to-come-off-the-bench-for-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan to come off the bench for Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 17 seasons as an undisputed starter with the Raptors, Spurs, Bulls and Kings, DeMar DeRozan will have to adjust to a new role  in the upcoming season with the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following yesterday\u2019s practice, head coach David Adelman confirmed to reporters that the six-time All-Star will become the team\u2019s sixth man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming off the bench, DeRozan will be able to focus on what he does best: putting points on the board with good efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nuggets\u2019 starting five will therefore remain Jamal Murray, Christian Braun, Cameron Johnson, Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy mindset? I want to win,\u201d the 37-year-old said when asked about his potential role as the new sixth man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGo out there and compete. Be myself, go out there, help this team whatever way possible to win, compete. \u2026 I love basketball. It\u2019s still basketball at the end of the day. So me going out there, doing whatever I need to win, that\u2019s all I care about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love basketball. It\u2019s still basketball at the end of the day&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":543627,"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-543629","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\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-03-19.25.25.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543629","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543630,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543629\/revisions\/543630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543629"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=543629"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=543629"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=543629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}