{"id":765953,"date":"2026-07-16T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765953\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:09:13","slug":"dont-get-me-wrong-clark-is-a-very-good-possibly-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765953\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Clark is a very good, possibly \u2026 | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The six-time NBA champion made it clear that his comments were not intended as criticism of Clark herself. Instead, he argued that placing any second-year player above a generation of established superstars diminishes what others have accomplished. &#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Clark is a very good, possibly even a great, player,&#8221; Abdul-Jabbar wrote. &#8220;But calling any one player the face of the league, absent the sort of on-court and cross-platform dominance of a Michael Jordan or a LeBron James, is an insult to an awful lot of great players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sporting News<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: &#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Clark is a very good, possibly \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by HoopsHype \/ Hoops Hype<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The six-time NBA champion made it clear that his comments were not intended as criticism of Clark herself.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,309980,99],"class_list":["post-765953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-portland_fire","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765953","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=765953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}