{"id":869967,"date":"2026-10-04T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869967\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:16:09","slug":"he-always-comes-to-me-and-sits-with-me-and-asks-me-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869967\/","title":{"rendered":"He always comes to me and sits with me and asks me how \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s great. He&#8217;s honest. He&#8217;s tough,&#8221; Antetokounmpo said of Haslem, with the Heat opening its five-game preseason schedule on Saturday night against the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Toronto Raptors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Toronto Raptors&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/28\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> in Quebec City, Canada. &#8220;Obviously being around the organization for 20-plus years, he brings value to the team as a player and as a guy that can come in and coach us and give us advice. So far, I&#8217;ve loved it. <a data-ylk=\"slk:He always comes to me and sits with me and asks me how I feel and what I thought about practicing. Sometimes just that little interaction helps you. It goes a long way. I&#039;m looking forward to getting to know him more.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;He always comes to me and sits with me and asks me how I feel and what I thought about practicing. Sometimes just that little interaction helps you. It goes a long way. I&#039;m looking forward to getting to know him more.\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article317471358.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">He always comes to me and sits with me and asks me how I feel and what I thought about practicing. Sometimes just that little interaction helps you. It goes a long way. I&#8217;m looking forward to getting to know him more.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;He&#8217;s great. He&#8217;s honest. He&#8217;s tough,&#8221; Antetokounmpo said of Haslem, with the Heat opening its five-game preseason schedule&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-869967","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\/869967","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=869967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}