{"id":389931,"date":"2024-05-28T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=389931"},"modified":"2024-05-28T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:27:03","slug":"kasparas-jakucionis-reportedly-heading-to-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kasparas-jakucionis-reportedly-heading-to-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasparas Jakucionis reportedly heading to Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promising Lithuanian prospect Kasparas Jakucionis will leave Barcelona to play at Illinois and prove himself in College Basketball.<br \/>\nThe news was reported by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/40233577\/source-lithuania-kasparas-jakucionis-commits-illinois\"> ESPN&#8217;s Jonathan Givony<\/a>, who considers the 17-year-old point guard &#8216;one of the most promising international prospects in the 2024 class&#8217; and &#8216;a potential first-round pick in the 2025 NBA draft&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Jakucionis was included on the 2023-24 EB ANGT Finals Berlin All-Tournament Team, where he dished out 38 assists in 3 games and posted a new record with 17 assists in a game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kasparas Jakucionis, a 6&#8217;6 Lithuanian point guard and potential first-round pick in the 2025 NBA draft, is considered one of the most promising international prospects committing to the college route in the class of 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8j4eobNyo7\">https:\/\/t.co\/8j4eobNyo7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/05knr3qYku\">pic.twitter.com\/05knr3qYku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1795440992449098216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 17-year-old Lithuanian point guard is considered among the best Europeans in the Class of 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":389932,"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":[305],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-389931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/Kasparas-Jakucionis.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389931","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=389931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389931"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=389931"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=389931"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=389931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}