{"id":798981,"date":"2026-07-14T04:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798981\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:31:12","slug":"aj-dybantsa-reveals-dwyane-wade-conversation-why-rookie-has-bigger-goal-than-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798981\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa Reveals Dwyane Wade Conversation, Why Rookie Has Bigger Goal Than Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">AJ Dybantsa&#8217;s goal isn&#8217;t to just finish his career as a Hall of Famer, but to also be remembered as one of the 100 best players to ever step on an NBA court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I spoke to Dwyane Wade right before the NBA draft and I told him I want to be a Hall of Famer,&#8221; <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ohnohedidnt24\/status\/2076803989148995848\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">he said<\/a> during the Las Vegas Summer League. &#8220;And he said that&#8217;s what he wanted to be too until he got selected for the top 75 and that was like a bigger moment for him than the Hall of Fame. So he said 20 years from now will be the 100th anniversary and I should be aiming for the top 100 instead of just the Hall of Fame so that&#8217;s my new goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It&#8217;s certainly an ambitious goal, though the Washington Wizards will be thrilled to hear that Dybantsa wants to be an all-time great. His NBA career has also gotten off to a promising start, as he&#8217;s averaging 25 points, seven rebounds and two assists per game in two Summer League contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa&#8217;s goal isn&#8217;t to just finish his career as a Hall of Famer, but to also be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-798981","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\/798981","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=798981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}