{"id":191816,"date":"2025-07-24T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/191816\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:51:19","slug":"twin-brothers-amen-thompson-and-ausar-thompson-were-nominated-for-defensive-player-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/191816\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin brothers Amen Thompson and Ausar Thompson were nominated for Defensive Player of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HoopsHype<br \/>\n\u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>NBA Communications: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1897015894771163424\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Other nominees..<\/a>. West: Luguentz Dort (OKC), Kris Dunn and Ivica Zubac (LAC), Jaren Jackson Jr. (MEM) and Amen Thompson (HOU) East: Nic Claxton (BKN), Dyson Daniels (ATL), Isaiah Stewart and Ausar Thompson (DET), and Myles Turner (IND)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1897015894771163424\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/hoopshype.com\/player\/amen-thompson\/\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this storyline<\/a>Ausar Thompson:\u00a0Yeah, definitely. I would definitely participate in it. I would just need to practice some dunks over the summer. I think I could do some cool stuff. <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2025\/02\/ausar-thompson-interview-detroit-pistons-dunk-contest-amen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on For The Win\" target=\"_blank\">I haven\u2019t worked on a dunk in like three years. But once I get that back down, I\u2019m ready<\/a>. I think Mac McClung is ridiculous when it comes to dunking. People were talking about\u00a0the car dunk. I think his second dunk: He acted like he was about to reverse it and 360. I think that dunk was crazy. Nobody is talking about that one quite as much. I think Stephon Castle was going off in it. He honestly surprised me. I swear I don\u2019t remember him jumping like this. He was dunking on people. -via <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2025\/02\/ausar-thompson-interview-detroit-pistons-dunk-contest-amen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For The Win<\/a> \/ February 18, 2025<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HoopsHype \u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY Sports NBA Communications: Other nominees&#8230; West: Luguentz Dort (OKC), Kris Dunn and Ivica Zubac&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[3503,1987,883,299,108,2692,1026,1413,7,670,247,2227,2590,559,918,2226,1195,917,206,130,133,267,1414,107,123,292,194,131,947,1016,2159,532,625,624,496,106,298,135,636,367,70,85,6,671,62,67,310,475,179,3966,3965,61,81,211,1412,66,83,2589,930,3502,962,2614,1988,312,637,2160],"class_list":{"0":"post-191816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-adams","9":"tag-amen","10":"tag-amen-thompson","11":"tag-angeles","12":"tag-antetokounmpo","13":"tag-ausar","14":"tag-ausar-thompson","15":"tag-autopilot","16":"tag-basketball","17":"tag-brooklyn","18":"tag-brooklyn-nets","19":"tag-brooks","20":"tag-castle","21":"tag-clippers","22":"tag-daniels","23":"tag-dillon","24":"tag-dillon-brooks","25":"tag-dyson","26":"tag-dyson-daniels","27":"tag-espn","28":"tag-espn-inc","29":"tag-exclude","30":"tag-exclude-social-autopilot","31":"tag-giannis","32":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","33":"tag-houston","34":"tag-houston-rockets","35":"tag-inc","36":"tag-isaiah","37":"tag-isaiah-stewart","38":"tag-ivica","39":"tag-ivica-zubac","40":"tag-jackson","41":"tag-jaren","42":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","43":"tag-jr","44":"tag-los","45":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","46":"tag-myles","47":"tag-myles-turner","48":"tag-national","49":"tag-national-sports","50":"tag-nba","51":"tag-nets","52":"tag-neutral","53":"tag-news","54":"tag-oklahoma","55":"tag-oklahoma-city","56":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","57":"tag-oklahomacity","58":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","59":"tag-overall","60":"tag-overall-neutral","61":"tag-rockets","62":"tag-social","63":"tag-sports","64":"tag-sports-news","65":"tag-stephon","66":"tag-stephon-castle","67":"tag-steven","68":"tag-steven-adams","69":"tag-stewart","70":"tag-thompson","71":"tag-thunder","72":"tag-turner","73":"tag-zubac"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}