{"id":429618,"date":"2023-03-10T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429618"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:39:23","slug":"lauri-markkanen-says-mip-award-is-extra-motivation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lauri-markkanen-says-mip-award-is-extra-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauri Markkanen says MIP award is &#8216;extra motivation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Jazz&#8217;s Lauri Markkanen showed much promise from his early stages in the NBA and is by far the best player in the team.<\/p>\n<p>Averaging 25,5 points on 51,3% shooting from the field, the No. 7 pick from the 2017 draft is now among the top contenders to win the Most Improved Player award, ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s extra motivation, but I\u2019m not thinking about it right now. I talked about the responsibility, and I\u2019m enjoying the challenge, and if those individual goals happen if we keep winning games and I keep doing my thing. I go daily to keep working, and I hope that happens, but we\u2019ll see.&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just try to get these wins together and keep going from there. Still, obviously, it would be a cool trophy to have at home, but that\u2019s not the main goal right now,\u201d Markkanen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Jazz&#8217;s Lauri Markkanen showed much promise from his early stages in the NBA and is by far the best player in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":429619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17198],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18126,18125],"acf":{"announce":"\"It would be a cool trophy to have at home\", he admits","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429618"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429618"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}