{"id":696772,"date":"2026-04-03T23:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:21:28","slug":"is-detroit-pistons-forward-ausar-thompson-the-nbas-best-perimeter-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696772\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Detroit Pistons Forward Ausar Thompson The NBA\u2019s Best Perimeter Defender?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s dead serious that throughout his career, that\u2019s what he wants to do,\u201d Pistons head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RzP3x31fQlo&amp;t=1s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.B. Bickerstaff said after their five-point win over Minnesota<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s where he wants to put his impact on the game, and for a guy who understands that at this age and knows how important it is, particularly to our team, it means even that much more that he\u2019s willing to go the extra mile to go out and do what he does every single night knowing that it\u2019s not an easy job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s dead serious that throughout his career, that\u2019s what he wants to do,\u201d Pistons head coach J.B. Bickerstaff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-696772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696772","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=696772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}