{"id":142488,"date":"2020-04-05T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=142488"},"modified":"2020-04-05T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:00:23","slug":"ahston-hagans-its-time-for-me-to-live-out-my-life-long-dream-and-declare-for-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ahston-hagans-its-time-for-me-to-live-out-my-life-long-dream-and-declare-for-the-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahston Hagans: It&#8217;s time for me to live out my life-long dream and declare for the Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky pointguard Ahston Hagans announced Sunday he will enter his name in the 2020 NBA Draft and plans to forego his remaining collegiate eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I chose to come back for my sophomore year, I had some goals in mind,&#8221; Hagans said. &#8220;First was to win a national championship. You know it&#8217;s killing me that we didn&#8217;t get the chance to compete for one this season, but I understand why we couldn&#8217;t. But, just know, we would have been right there. The second thing we did, which was to win an SEC championship. I also wanted to become a better all-around point guard. My coaches and my teammates really helped me improve and now I know I&#8217;m ready to take the next step.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to let you all know that even though I love Kentucky with all of my heart and really wish I could have played for a &#8216;ship, it&#8217;s time for me to live out my life-long dream and declare for the NBA Draft. It&#8217;s been my No. 1 goal since I first picked up a ball to take this step and I know my time is now. It&#8217;s so hard for me to say goodbye to the best fans in the world, because these last two years have been some of the best of my life.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 Kentucky guard was the consummate point guard in his sophomore season, doing a little bit of everything to affect the game. He averaged 11.5 points, 6.4 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game while grabbing the leadership reins of a talented but young team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky pointguard Ahston Hagans announced Sunday he will enter his name in the 2020 NBA Draft and plans to forego his remaining collegiate eligibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[12896],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-142488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ahston-hagans"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142488"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=142488"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=142488"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=142488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}