{"id":40296,"date":"2025-05-01T05:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/australias-dyson-daniels-scoops-major-award-for-nbas-most-improved-player\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:17:39","slug":"australias-dyson-daniels-scoops-major-award-for-nbas-most-improved-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/australias-dyson-daniels-scoops-major-award-for-nbas-most-improved-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Dyson Daniels scoops major award for NBA\u2019s most improved player"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Atlanta guard averaged 14.1 points and three steals per game<\/li>\n<li>\u2018I feel like I\u2019ve got a lot more in me,\u2019 says 22-year-old<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian basketballer Dyson Daniels has declared he can still get better after winning the NBA\u2019s prestigious Most Improved Player award. The George Mikan Trophy is awarded for the player who shows the most progress between seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels was selected eighth in the 2022 draft, but started only 25 games in two seasons for New Orleans before he was traded to Atlanta last year. He was in the Hawks\u2019 starting five for all 76 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/01\/dyson-daniels-nba-most-improved-player-award\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta guard averaged 14.1 points and three steals per game \u2018I feel like I\u2019ve got a lot more in me,\u2019 says 22-year-old Australian basketballer Dyson Daniels has declared he can still get better after winning the NBA\u2019s prestigious Most Improved Player award. The George Mikan Trophy is awarded for the player who shows the most &#8230; <a title=\"Australia\u2019s Dyson Daniels scoops major award for NBA\u2019s most improved player\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/australias-dyson-daniels-scoops-major-award-for-nbas-most-improved-player\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Australia\u2019s Dyson Daniels scoops major award for NBA\u2019s most improved player\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}