{"id":262960,"date":"2025-11-05T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262960\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:44:16","slug":"grading-every-nba-teams-rookie-class-after-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262960\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading Every NBA Team&#8217;s Rookie Class After 2 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">No. 36 overall pick Adou Thiero is still waiting to make his debut while spending time rehabbing a knee injury. It sounds like the Los Angeles Lakers don&#8217;t plan on throwing big minutes his way anytime soon, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;And I told him this, and I&#8217;ve said this to you guys: this year is really important for him as a development year, but it&#8217;s as much about getting his body right and learning the NBA, the language, and all of that stuff as it is about getting on-court reps. There will be opportunities at some point in the future. I don&#8217;t know when that is for him to get some reps with us in-game, but we&#8217;re gonna make sure that his body&#8217;s right,&#8221; head coach JJ Redick said via <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/10\/29\/lakers-hoping-lebron-james-will-return-by-2nd-or-3rd-week-of-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Khobi Price<\/a> of the Southern California News Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chris Ma\u00f1on, an undrafted rookie out of Vanderbilt now playing on a two-way contract, has logged just seven minutes across two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 36 overall pick Adou Thiero is still waiting to make his debut while spending time rehabbing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-262960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262960","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=262960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}