{"id":590615,"date":"2026-04-17T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590615\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:59:10","slug":"several-voters-mentioned-that-they-couldnt-vote-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590615\/","title":{"rendered":"Several voters mentioned that they couldn&#8217;t vote for \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s not at the level of SGA or <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5352\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jokic;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jokic&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jokic<\/a> on offense, but he&#8217;s no slouch there either. The gravity that he creates is absurd. If he&#8217;s near the basket, his teammates simply have to throw it anywhere within five feet of the rim and he&#8217;s going to dunk it. That obviously creates a ton of open looks for teammates. The Spurs were 29th on offense and 30th on defense the season before <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/10094\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wemby;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Wemby&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wemby<\/a> was on the team. They&#8217;re top five in both now, and it&#8217;s mostly because of him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/news\/best-player-straw-poll-53-votes-media-league-insiders\/38934f9b4adcdd9208e5cc2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Several voters mentioned that they couldn&#039;t vote for Wembanyama quite yet, but he would likely be their pick next season;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;Several voters mentioned that they couldn&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Several voters mentioned that they couldn&#8217;t vote for Wembanyama quite yet, but he would likely be their pick next season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/news\/best-player-straw-poll-53-votes-media-league-insiders\/38934f9b4adcdd9208e5cc2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sporting News;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;Sporting News&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s not at the level of SGA or Jokic on offense, but he&#8217;s no slouch there either. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[158682,355,99,60950,114219],"class_list":{"0":"post-590615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-jokic","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-the-spurs","12":"tag-wemby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590615","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=590615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}