{"id":143354,"date":"2025-09-14T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143354\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:03:07","slug":"20-old-school-players-who-would-have-thrived-in-the-modern-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143354\/","title":{"rendered":"20 old school players who would have thrived in the modern NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which former NBA players watch today&#8217;s game and think to themselves, Man, I would have been awesome in today&#8217;s game? Probably all of them. But how many of them are right? Here&#8217;s a list of 20 players that had the skill set to thrive in today&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p> Note: We&#8217;re focusing on players who would have had elevated roles compared to what they had when they played and\/or fit the modern game better than the game when they played. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/larry_bird\/126254\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Bird<\/a> is on this list because he never shot threes despite being the best shooter in the league whereas Michael Jordan is not on this list because he had a more modern skill set than the players of his era and dominated because of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Which former NBA players watch today&#8217;s game and think to themselves, Man, I would have been awesome in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-143354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}