{"id":726485,"date":"2026-06-26T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726485\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:02:08","slug":"aj-dybantsa-talks-expectations-at-first-wizards-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726485\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa talks expectations at first Wizards press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TZSQCXTQOZFLFFTQFWD2DLGN5Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">These days, AJ Dybantsa doesn\u2019t really notice the festivities.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AK6H2A6YNRAPXISI4AAJDI6NKY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Back in eighth grade, when he was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2025\/10\/18\/aj-dybantsa-basketball-dad-ace\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2025\/10\/18\/aj-dybantsa-basketball-dad-ace\/\">blossoming into a basketball phenomenon<\/a>, St. Sebastian School had to buy yellow tape. The Needham, Massachusetts, all-boys Catholic institution with about 380 students had a gym comparable to those at most small high schools. Rarely did the fourth row of bleachers even need to get extended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These days, AJ Dybantsa doesn\u2019t really notice the festivities. Back in eighth grade, when he was first blossoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-726485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726485","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=726485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}