{"id":177449,"date":"2025-09-24T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/177449\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:03:09","slug":"what-rick-barnes-said-about-tennessee-basketball-on-first-official-day-of-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/177449\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rick Barnes said about Tennessee basketball on first official day of practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I mean, you can&#8217;t live with someone like Bruce and not understand the game, being around the game. I think that over the years as I&#8217;ve grown up and matured every year, I think I could tell you from the first time I met Steven, the same thing. I will say that about all the coaches on my staff as I watch them grow, and I think Steven has worked hard, and I think the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/auburn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Auburn<\/a> has given him this opportunity speaks volumes of what they think of him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone knows, I mean, I know personally there&#8217;s three guys on our staff right now without question, maybe even four, maybe five, that if given the opportunity to be the coach here today, I think would be ready because of how much we have them involved in our program. And I think that Bruce, obviously over the last couple of years, probably didn&#8217;t make any decisions in the program that he didn&#8217;t sit down with Steven to talk about. This is something that I knew that he wanted and I&#8217;m happy for him. I&#8217;m happy for Steven. And there&#8217;s no doubt he&#8217;s going to continue to do a great job.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I mean, you can&#8217;t live with someone like Bruce and not understand the game, being around the game.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-177449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}