{"id":607121,"date":"2026-04-16T03:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607121\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:21:12","slug":"jj-redick-on-deandre-ayton-when-hes-at-his-best-were-an-elite-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607121\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick on Deandre Ayton: &#8216;When he&#8217;s at his best, we&#8217;re an elite basketball team&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe whole season for him has been about finding consistency,\u201d coach JJ Redick said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2026-04-15\/deandre-ayton-knows-lakers-need-him-to-be-playoff-best\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cWhen he\u2019s at his best, we\u2019re an elite basketball team.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cWhen he\u2019s at his best, we\u2019re an elite basketball team.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cWhen he\u2019s at his best, we\u2019re an elite basketball team.<\/a> That\u2019s just the reality. He raises our ceiling so much \u2014 and it\u2019s on both sides of the ball. It\u2019s not him being able to score 24 points, although when he scores and shoots, we typically win. &#8230; He\u2019s just a really good basketball player and we\u2019re very happy with where he\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2026-04-15\/deandre-ayton-knows-lakers-need-him-to-be-playoff-best\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Los Angeles Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe whole season for him has been about finding consistency,\u201d coach JJ Redick said. \u201cWhen he\u2019s at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,31706,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-607121","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-jj-redick","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607121","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=607121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}