{"id":726786,"date":"2021-09-24T18:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=726786"},"modified":"2021-09-24T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:34:50","slug":"brandon-jennings-i-wouldve-been-an-all-star-if-i-didnt-tear-my-achilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/brandon-jennings-i-wouldve-been-an-all-star-if-i-didnt-tear-my-achilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Jennings: \u2018I Would\u2019ve Been An All-Star If I Didn\u2019t Tear My Achilles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former NBA guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=brandon+jennings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brandon Jennings<\/a> has an extremely fascinating story, starting with the choice to skip college to go straight to the NBA. The former top-ten draft pick was an excellent player in the League, but had injury issues that hindered his career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennings recently spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/hoopshype.com\/lists\/brandon-jennings-i-wouldve-been-an-all-star-for-sure-if-i-didnt-tear-my-achilles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Scotto of HoopsHype<\/a>, reminiscing on what could have been if he would have stayed healthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would\u2019ve been an All-Star for sure if I didn\u2019t tear my Achilles,\u201d said Jennings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennings tore his Achilles in 2015, which is one of the most difficult injuries to return from at full strength.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Jennings Achilles injury: Detroit Pistons at Milwaukee Bucks\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8ElPvummoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a full-time starter before that injury, but only started in 20 of 143 games following his recovery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his nine year NBA career, Jennings notched 555 career games. During that time, he averaged. 14.1 points and 3.1 assists per game while shooting 34.5 percent from deep.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had he been able to stay healthy, anything could have happened. A guy who could score 20 on any given night, he was yet another player that could have accomplished even greater things if it weren\u2019t for injuries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA guard Brandon Jennings has an extremely fascinating story, starting with the choice to skip college to go straight to the NBA. The former top-ten draft pick was an excellent player in the League, but had injury issues that hindered his career.\u00a0\u00a0 Jennings recently spoke to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, reminiscing on what could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":726779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,62493],"tags":[347,62523],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-726786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-newswire","tag-brandon-jennings","tag-mantle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726792,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726786\/revisions\/726792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726786"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=726786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}