{"id":892571,"date":"2026-09-15T06:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892571\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:32:24","slug":"kyrie-irving-jayson-tatum-give-pep-talk-to-duke-in-new-video-ahead-of-2026-27-mcbb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892571\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum Give Pep Talk to Duke in New Video Ahead of 2026-27 MCBB Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Dallas Mavericks point guard Kyrie Irving and Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, both Duke alum, gave the team a pep talk on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;We always say have fun, but we&#8217;ve got a target on our back everywhere we go,&#8221; Irving noted. &#8220;So get used to it. Get out there, I know you guys are. Sophomores, juniors, seniors, lead the freshman. You guys keep up the work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Duke is considered one of the favorites to win a national title this season, led by Wisconsin transfer\u00a0John Blackwell, veteran\u00a0Caleb Foster\u00a0and 5-star recruit Cameron Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks point guard Kyrie Irving and Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, both Duke alum, gave the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-892571","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\/892571","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=892571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}