{"id":429916,"date":"2025-02-24T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429916"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:03:43","slug":"african-big-man-paul-mbiya-considering-college-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/african-big-man-paul-mbiya-considering-college-route\/","title":{"rendered":"African Big Man Paul Mbiya Considering College Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"866\">Congolese center <strong data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"790\">Paul Mbiya<\/strong> is weighing his options and could take the <strong data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"850\">college path<\/strong>, per sources.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"1136\">Standing <strong data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"901\">6&#8217;11&#8221; and 260 pounds<\/strong> with a <strong data-start=\"909\" data-end=\"926\">7&#8217;4&#8243; wingspan<\/strong>, Mbiya is a raw but intriguing prospect, having played basketball for <strong data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1017\">only three years<\/strong>. He developed at <strong data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1057\">NBA Academy Africa<\/strong> before joining <strong data-start=\"1073\" data-end=\"1082\">ASVEL<\/strong> in the EuroLeague, a club owned by <strong data-start=\"1118\" data-end=\"1133\">Tony Parker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1138\" data-end=\"1233\">According to reports, <strong data-start=\"1160\" data-end=\"1184\">two Big Ten programs<\/strong> have already shown interest in recruiting him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">African center Paul Mbiya is considering the college route, per source.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-11, 260-pound big man boasts a 7-4 wingspan. The soon-to-be 20-year-old has only been playing basketball for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from the Congo, Mbiya previously played with NBA Academy Africa\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uOv4IxNIjZ\">pic.twitter.com\/uOv4IxNIjZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiptonEdits\/status\/1894050841004232828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/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>Congolese center Paul Mbiya is weighing his options and could take the college path<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393626,"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":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/NCAA.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429916","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=429916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429916"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429916"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429916"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}