{"id":797682,"date":"2026-07-13T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797682\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:18:12","slug":"predicting-the-30-best-nba-players-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797682\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the 30 Best NBA Players in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Age Four Years from Now:\u00a035<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This might seem a little aggressive, given Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s reliance on athleticism and his recent injury history, but when he&#8217;s available, he still produces like a supercharged Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Over the last four seasons, he&#8217;s put up 30.2 points, 11.4 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.0 blocks. And even if he&#8217;s producing around 90 percent of that level in 2030, he&#8217;ll be a fringe top-10 player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Of course, it would help if his jumper became a little more reliable and he added a few more interior counters that weren&#8217;t just muscle-based over the next four years. But even if he doesn&#8217;t, 35-year-old Giannis figures to be a force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age Four Years from Now:\u00a035 This might seem a little aggressive, given Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s reliance on athleticism and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-797682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797682","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=797682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}