{"id":487617,"date":"2025-10-21T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/towns-horford-and-jaquez-jr-the-latin-figures-aiming-for-the-2026-nba-ring\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:16:08","slug":"towns-horford-and-jaquez-jr-the-latin-figures-aiming-for-the-2026-nba-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/basketball\/towns-horford-and-jaquez-jr-the-latin-figures-aiming-for-the-2026-nba-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Towns, Horford, and Jaquez Jr., the Latin figures aiming for the 2026 NBA ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\nMiami (USA)<\/strong> \u2014 Latino talent shines brightly in the NBA. Looking ahead to the 2025-2026 season, three names stand out among the main protagonists with championship aspirations: Dominican Karl-Anthony Towns<\/strong> with the New York Knicks<\/strong>, his compatriot Al Horford<\/strong>, who now wears the uniform of the Golden State Warriors<\/strong>, and Mexican Jaime J\u00e1quez Jr.<\/strong>, one of the young prospects of the Miami Heat<\/strong>.\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>:San Carlos wins regular series of group A by defeating Huellas del Siglo and complicates their qualifying situation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nTowns, who led the Knicks to the conference finals last season, enters his second year in New York as the leading Latin figure in the league. With averages of 24.4 points and 12.8 rebounds per game<\/strong>, he was included in the Third Team All-NBA<\/strong> and formed a powerful duo with Jalen Brunson<\/strong>. Now, under the direction of Mike Brown<\/strong>, the Dominican will seek to take the historic franchise to the next level.\n\n\n

For his part, Al Horford<\/strong>, 39 years old, traded Boston for California after the title won with the Celtics in 2024<\/strong>. His arrival at Golden State<\/strong> brings experience and interior strength to a team seeking to regain prominence in the West. The Warriors<\/strong>, who incorporated Jimmy Butler<\/strong> last season, see in the Dominican veteran the piece that can balance their game under the hoop.<\/p>\n\n\nMeanwhile, Mexican Jaime J\u00e1quez Jr.<\/strong> is entering his third season with the Heat<\/strong>, determined to establish himself. After being included in the First Rookie Team<\/strong> in 2024, his numbers dropped last year, but in this preseason he has shown signs of growth. The young forward will compete for minutes in a team that is going through a transition phase after its first-round defeat in the last two seasons.\n\nWith different styles but the same goal, Towns, Horford, and J\u00e1quez Jr. represent the growing influence of Latin basketball in the NBA. Each one, from their role, aspires to write a new chapter in the history of Hispanic players in the best league in the world.\n\n\n

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Miami (USA) \u2014 Latino talent shines brightly in the NBA. Looking ahead to the 2025-2026 season, three names stand out among the main protagonists with championship aspirations: Dominican Karl-Anthony Towns with the New York Knicks, his compatriot Al Horford, who now wears the uniform of the Golden State Warriors, and Mexican Jaime J\u00e1quez Jr., one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":487618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35743],"tags":[611,40231,71,40853],"class_list":["post-487617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-nba","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22QN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/OBJ_20250530T021206S0012I_1_1_1_15_7_6.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Basketball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/OBJ_20250530T021206S0012I_1_1_1_15_7_6.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}