{"id":670106,"date":"2026-05-28T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:56:10","slug":"of-course-i-wanted-to-play-anunoby-told-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670106\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOf course I wanted to play,\u201d Anunoby told The \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OG Anunoby is an NBA champion. That will never be taken away from him, even if the history books don\u2019t tell the whole story. As a second-year forward with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/28\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Toronto Raptors;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;Toronto Raptors&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, the up-and-coming Anunoby played a big role primarily off the bench for Canada\u2019s team as it earned 58 wins and the No. 2 seed during the regular season. Right before the playoffs, however, Anunoby underwent an emergency appendectomy, forcing him to miss the entire playoff run that culminated in the Raptors winning their first championship. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7313903\/2026\/05\/28\/knicks-og-anunoby-title-hurt-healthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cOf course I wanted to play,\u201d Anunoby told The Athletic. \u201cI wish I played, but I also learned a lot.\u201d;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;\u201cOf course I wanted to play,\u201d Anunoby told The Athletic. \u201cI wish I played, but I also learned a lot.\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cOf course I wanted to play,\u201d Anunoby told The Athletic. \u201cI wish I played, but I also learned a lot.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7313903\/2026\/05\/28\/knicks-og-anunoby-title-hurt-healthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York 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;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OG Anunoby is an NBA champion. That will never be taken away from him, even if the history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[292454,292453,355,69881,19560,99,2970],"class_list":["post-670106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-canadas-team","tag-emergency-appendectomy","tag-nba","tag-nba-champion","tag-og-anunoby","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670106","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=670106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}