{"id":547568,"date":"2026-10-05T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=547568"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:05:24","slug":"donte-divincenzo-determined-to-return-this-season-the-mindset-is-to-play-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/donte-divincenzo-determined-to-return-this-season-the-mindset-is-to-play-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Donte DiVincenzo determined to return this season: &#8220;The mindset is to play this year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donte DiVincenzo is determined to return to action this season after suffering an Achilles tear during last year\u2019s playoffs. The Minnesota Timberwolves guard made his intentions clear at the start of training camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t come in here with the mindset of I\u2019m gonna play next year. No, the mindset is to play this year,\u201d he said. During his rehabilitation, DiVincenzo has spoken with Jayson Tatum, Damian Lillard and Tyrese Haliburton, among other players who have suffered the same injury, to learn from their experiences. \u201cIt\u2019s been very, very helpful those days or weeks where you feel like you\u2019re not gaining so much ground as you should,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DiVincenzo is also documenting his recovery process. Last season, he averaged 12.2 points and 4.1 rebounds while shooting 38% from three-point range. Coach Chris Finch also highlighted his leadership and importance to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Timberwolves guard is targeting a return from his Achilles tear this season and has sought advice from Jayson Tatum, Damian Lillard and Tyrese Haliburton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":371773,"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-547568","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\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547568","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=547568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547569,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547568\/revisions\/547569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547568"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=547568"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=547568"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=547568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}