{"id":275497,"date":"2022-05-14T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=275497"},"modified":"2022-05-14T20:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:44:14","slug":"nba-draft-2022-jalen-duren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-draft-2022-jalen-duren\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draft 2022: Jalen Duren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 NBA Draft is fast approaching, in 3 days the Lottery will determine the order of the first 14 picks.<br \/>\nThere aren&#8217;t many options better than Jalen Duren in the Draft Class for teams that will decide to select a center.<\/p>\n<p>At just 18 years old, the center out of Memphis is among the youngest athletes who will shake Adam Silver&#8217;s hand on draft night.<\/p>\n<p>Duren put together averages of 12.3 points (60% FG, 62% FT), 8.1 rebounds and 2.2 steals in 25 minutes per game in his freshman year with the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Duren has top-notch physical and athletic potential, he managed to emerge despite a less than ideal setting (Memphis had little playmaking and few real shooters), anchoring the defense with his innate ability to protect the rim.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently No. 7 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/draft\/bestavailable\/_\/position\/ovr\/page\/1\">ESPN&#8217;s Top 100<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L0rEP7IuBrI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duren is currently No. 7 on ESPN&#8217;s Top 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":247993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[399],"tags":[2895],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-275497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-nba-draft","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/jalen-duren.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275497","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275497"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=275497"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=275497"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=275497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}