{"id":1040881,"date":"2026-09-03T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1040881\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:38:38","slug":"thanasis-antetokounmpo-a-lot-of-these-guys-are-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1040881\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanasis Antetokounmpo: &#8220;A lot of these guys are not \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Thanasis Antetokounmpo: &quot;A lot of these guys are not in the professional leagues is because they either want to be in the NBA or don&#039;t want to play professionally.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Thanasis Antetokounmpo: \\&quot;A lot of these guys are not in the professional leagues is because they either want to be in the NBA or don&#039;t want to play professionally.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6HLV-k17qec&amp;t=5s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Thanasis Antetokounmpo: &#8220;A lot of these guys are not in the professional leagues is because they either want to be in the NBA or don&#8217;t want to play professionally.<\/a> Which is an insane concept because playing basketball, you have such a big privilege because basketball is a global game. It&#8217;s not like the NFL. The only way you can be a football player is the NFL. It&#8217;s nowhere else. But basketball, and making a living, you can go anywhere. You can go to Europe, Australia, Asia, Italy, Spain, anywhere you want to go if you&#8217;re good at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanasis Antetokounmpo: &#8220;A lot of these guys are not in the professional leagues is because they either want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1040882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[31548,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1040881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-its","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117207387588715397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}