{"id":786451,"date":"2026-05-10T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:47:33","slug":"for-me-individually-its-been-more-of-just-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786451\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For me, individually, it&#8217;s been more of just being \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Martinez: <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/10304\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ajay Mitchell;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ajay Mitchell&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ajay Mitchell<\/a> on his path to the NBA and how he has found success with OKC: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Justintohoops\/status\/2053336775368863878\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;For me, individually, it&#039;s been more of just being grateful. Looking back to myself as a little kid in Belgium, just dreaming of playing in the NBA. I think with God putting me in those positions, I just truly feel grateful for those opportunities.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&amp;quot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">&#8220;For me, individually, it&#8217;s been more of just being grateful. Looking back to myself as a little kid in Belgium, just dreaming of playing in the NBA. I think with God putting me in those positions, I just truly feel grateful for those opportunities.<\/a> I feel like I&#8217;ve always had a chip on my shoulder. Every time I&#8217;m out on the court, I just want to prove myself, be a winning player and help my team win. That&#8217;s really what&#8217;s been on my mind every time I play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Justintohoops\/status\/2053336775368863878\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:x.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;x.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">x.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Martinez: Ajay Mitchell on his path to the NBA and how he has found success with OKC:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[137257,321503,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-786451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ajay-mitchell","tag-being-grateful","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116550123332740401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786451","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=786451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}