{"id":27268,"date":"2014-06-20T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kareems-a-game-was-better-thats-undeniable\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:04:20","slug":"kareems-a-game-was-better-thats-undeniable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kareems-a-game-was-better-thats-undeniable\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27268 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kareems-a-game-was-better-thats-undeniable\/attachment\/27269\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n7hryhCgCu1qescwho1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Kareem\u2019s A-game was better \u2014 that\u2019s undeniable. His first 11 seasons were as great as LeBron\u2019s first 11 seasons. Duncan was never THAT good for THAT long. But Kareem was more of a loner, a tortured genius, a once-in-a-generation talent who motivated teammates mostly by being outstanding at his job. Duncan\u2019s most underrated \u201cskill\u201d? He\u2019s one of the greatest and most unselfish teammates of all time. The Spurs realized early on that they could build a franchise around his personality, his competitiveness and his work ethic, so that\u2019s exactly what San Antonio did. Everyone from Duncan\u2019s generation was jealous of the players who got to play with Tim Duncan. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/24-lingering-questions-from-the-nba-finals\/\">24 Lingering Questions From the NBA Finals \u00ab<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kareem\u2019s A-game was better \u2014 that\u2019s undeniable. His first 11 seasons were as great as LeBron\u2019s first 11 seasons. Duncan was never THAT good for THAT long. But Kareem was more of a loner, a tortured genius, a once-in-a-generation talent who motivated teammates mostly by being outstanding at his job. Duncan\u2019s most underrated \u201cskill\u201d? He\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-75O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27270,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions\/27270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}