{"id":148244,"date":"2025-09-16T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148244\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:01:08","slug":"paolo-banchero-chet-holmgren-compete-in-nba-2k26-talk-wnba-stars-more-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148244\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren Compete in NBA 2K26, Talk WNBA Stars, More in Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero and Oklahoma City Thunder center Chet Holmgren recently met up to face off in NBA 2K26. <\/p>\n

Banchero and Holmgren played with their respective teams in the game as part of a video posted by Boardroom<\/a> on YouTube, with the Magic ultimately winning. <\/p>\n

A new feature<\/a> of NBA 2K26 is the ability to incorporate both NBA and WNBA players on the same squad in the MyTEAM mode, with both star players choosing the starting five that they would use. <\/p>\n

Banchero listed Minnesota Lynx legend Maya Moore and New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart along with Denver Nuggets center Nikola Joki\u0107, Indiana Pacers point guard Tyrese Haliburton and Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (11:50 mark). <\/p>\n

Holmgren also chose Moore and Stewart before adding Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson, Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant and Rockets icon Hakeem Olajuwon to round out his starting five. <\/p>\n

Banchero and Holmgren were selected with the first two picks in the 2022 NBA draft, respectively. <\/p>\n

The No. 1 overall choice has developed into an All-Star with the Magic and is coming off a 2024-25 campaign in which he averaged a career-high 25.9 points per game on 45.2\/32.0\/72.7 shooting splits. <\/p>\n

As for Holmgren, he averaged 15.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game last season. <\/p>\n

He served as a key rotation piece on a Thunder team that finished with the best record in the NBA at 68-14 before eventually winning a championship by taking down the Pacers in seven games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero and Oklahoma City Thunder center Chet Holmgren recently met up to face off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-148244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}