{"id":19360,"date":"2023-07-23T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/steph-curry-excludes-lebron-james-from-his-dream-starting-5\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T18:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:55:53","slug":"steph-curry-excludes-lebron-james-from-his-dream-starting-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/steph-curry-excludes-lebron-james-from-his-dream-starting-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Curry excludes LeBron James from his dream starting 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><picture><source data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230501_111819-e1682911303458-696x543.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"543\" class=\"entry-thumb webpexpress-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230501_111819-e1682911303458-696x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LeBron James, Stephen Curry\"\/><\/noscript><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1395247940977848323?t=1CWAfwn4SuUSkQoRpEHPWA&amp;s=19\">Los Angeles Lakers\/Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a recent interview, Warriors superstar Steph Curry revealed his dream starting five, raising eyebrows as he left out fellow four-time NBA champion, LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p>Curry\u2019s star-studded lineup includes Shaquille O\u2019Neal as center, Tim Duncan as power forward, and Kobe Bryant as small forward. Notably, Curry himself opted out of his dream team, modestly selecting Michael Jordan as his shooting guard. The cherry on top was having Magic Johnson dominate as point guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBA players I would pick: Shaquille O\u2019Neal as my center, Tim Duncan as my power forward, Larry Bird as my small forward. Am I on the team? Michael Jordan as my shooting guard. Late addition, I\u2019m not taking Larry, I\u2019 taking Kobe [Bryant] as my small forward, Jordan as my shooting guard, Magic Johnson as point guard. I won\u2019t be on the team,\u201d Curry said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>   <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Los Angeles Lakers\/Twitter In a recent interview, Warriors superstar Steph Curry revealed his dream starting five, raising eyebrows as he left out fellow four-time NBA champion, LeBron James. Curry\u2019s star-studded lineup includes Shaquille O\u2019Neal as center, Tim Duncan as power forward, and Kobe Bryant as small forward. Notably, Curry himself opted out of his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[425,354,4288,203,202,750,674],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19362,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions\/19362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}