{"id":468698,"date":"2023-11-08T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468698"},"modified":"2023-11-08T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:27:23","slug":"dillon-brooks-im-ready-to-stop-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dillon-brooks-im-ready-to-stop-lebron-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks: \u2018I\u2019m ready to stop LeBron James\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets best defender Dillon Brooks \u2013 who made the headlines during last campaign\u2019s postseason when, as a player of Memphis Grizzlies, he claimed that LeBron James is &#8220;old&#8221; and challenged him to notch 40 points, then hit him in the groin in Game 3 \u2013 and he didn\u2019t learn his lesson from that experience as he will face the LA Lakers superstar again today in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ready to stop him,&#8221; Brooks shared, according to the Houston Chronicle. &#8220;James is shooting the ball well. He has shown great basketball since the beginning of the season. But I will make him tired, make him come into that 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter a lot earlier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dillon Brooks plays LeBron James tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rockets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Rockets<\/a> are going for their 4th straight win ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E2wxUaXID2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/E2wxUaXID2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bradeaux (@BradeauxNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradeauxNBA\/status\/1722251946684473795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dillon&#8217;s antics didn&#8217;t do much to help Memphis during the spring, as the Grizzlies were eliminated in 6 matches from the Lakers in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round matchup, with LeBron finishing with 22 points and 20 boards in Game 4 for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 20-20 line of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets best defender Dillon Brooks \u2013 who made the headlines during last campaign\u2019s postseason when, as a player of Memphis Grizzlies, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":468699,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18993,17044,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18994,18346,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Rockets player said that he is ready to lock LeBron.","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\/468698"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468702,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468698\/revisions\/468702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468698"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468698"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}