{"id":372822,"date":"2025-11-12T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:34:10","slug":"knicks-defensive-player-of-the-game-award-is-a-reward-and-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372822\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; defensive player of the game award is a reward \u2014 and so much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following every game, Mike Brown steps to the microphone and starts his monologue.<\/p>\n<p>No questions from reporters. Just an uninterrupted few minutes of the coach\u2019s thoughts on what has transpired. We often hear about sprays (drive-and-kicks), and whether Brown was satisfied by the amount. There are never too many. We also hear about pace. The Knicks can\u2019t play quick enough. And if they win, Brown makes sure to start a sentence with, \u201cOur defensive player of the game is \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The public announcement is after a ceremony in the locker room for the recipient, unique to this season and intended to promote both motivation and smiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our values is joy,\u201d Brown explains. \u201cOne of our principles or rules is to have fun. If you\u2019re gonna preach something or say something, you gotta be about it. We try to find different ways to find that joy or to try to help our players have fun, because the season can be long and it can be monotonous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following every game, Mike Brown steps to the microphone and starts his monologue. No questions from reporters. Just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":372823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[24114,69359,24282,28461,1260,3122,17380,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-372822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-jalen-brunson","9":"tag-josh-hart","10":"tag-mike-brown","11":"tag-mitchell-robinson","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-og-anunoby","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115534159267763357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372822","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=372822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}