{"id":382199,"date":"2026-01-01T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:14:11","slug":"bold-nba-predictions-for-the-year-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382199\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold NBA Predictions for the Year 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Following news of Nikola Joki\u0107&#8217;s hyperextended knee that could cost him over four weeks of games, this barely qualifies as &#8220;bold,&#8221; but Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is going to repeat as MVP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">And while the betting <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nba?tab=awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">odds<\/a> may make this seem like a relatively unremarkable feat right now, the company SGA is about to join does the opposite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In just a few short months, we&#8217;ll be able to add SGA&#8217;s name to the following list: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Steve Nash, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Joki\u0107.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It&#8217;s almost like a guided tour through NBA history, and Gilgeous-Alexander averaging somewhere around 32 points, six assists and five rebounds for a 70-win team will make him one of the stops on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following news of Nikola Joki\u0107&#8217;s hyperextended knee that could cost him over four weeks of games, this barely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-382199","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\/382199","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=382199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}