{"id":175826,"date":"2026-02-22T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175826\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:36:10","slug":"theres-no-substitute-for-playmakers-in-dallas-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175826\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s no substitute for playmakers. In Dallas, we \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Mike Curtis: Asked Rick Carlisle about the value of elite PGs given the absence of Tyrese Haliburton &amp; Kyrie Irving this season for both teams: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2025680556638241071\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Read more on x.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no substitute for playmakers. In Dallas, we had a lot of success over a 13-year period with Jason Kidd, (JJ) Barea &amp; Devin Harris, who&#8217;s sitting right here.<\/a> It&#8217;s just so important to have guys who can make plays &amp; can score, but can also control the game. They can help a team play both fast &amp; be able to work the game a little bit when necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2025680556638241071\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Read more on x.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">x.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Curtis: Asked Rick Carlisle about the value of elite PGs given the absence of Tyrese Haliburton &amp;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,102,104,103,58289,58290,6326,5237,6320,70891,58291,2577,28597,70893,17104,184,70892,46,9025,28599,216,36],"class_list":["post-175826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-accessfree","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagdallas","tag-tagdallas-mavericks","tag-tagdevin-harris","tag-taghide-headline-hoops-hype","tag-tagindiana-pacers","tag-tagjason-kidd","tag-tagjose-juan-barea","tag-tagkyrie-irving","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagrick-carlisle","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtwitter","tag-tagtyrese-haliburton","tag-tx","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}