{"id":311942,"date":"2025-11-27T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311942\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:07:08","slug":"stan-van-gundy-on-nikola-jokic-he-might-be-the-best-player-in-the-history-of-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311942\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Van Gundy on Nikola Jokic: &#8216;He might be the best player in the history of the NBA&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as a center, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Nuggets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Nuggets<\/a> man has achieved a lot, there are those with more accolades. He doesn\u2019t have the hardware to compete with some of the truly great all-time legacies. But Van Gundy, a former NBA coach, thinks he could go all the way to the top. \u201cWell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/stan-van-gundy-gives-nikola-jokic-wild-nba-goat-shout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he might be the best player in the history of the NBA,\u201d Van Gundy told Zach Lowe.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he might be the best player in the history of the NBA,\u201d Van Gundy told Zach Lowe.<\/a> \u201cHere\u2019s the thing\u2026 I understand the thought that you compare players to how well they did in the era they played in. \u201cBut the evolution of athletes\u2026 We can probably say that the best 20 basketball players in history have probably played in the last twenty years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/stan-van-gundy-gives-nikola-jokic-wild-nba-goat-shout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Big Lead;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Big Lead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as a center, while the Denver Nuggets man has achieved a lot, there are those with more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[77477,64,63,102652,1662,590,85,176706,102761],"class_list":["post-311942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-accolades","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball-players","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-van-gundy","tag-zach-lowe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311942","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=311942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}