{"id":439171,"date":"2025-04-23T20:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439171"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:06:36","slug":"ace-bailey-entering-2025-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ace-bailey-entering-2025-nba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Bailey entering 2025 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ace Bailey announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44815023\/ace-bailey-declares-nba-draft-one-year-rutgers\">to ESPN<\/a> his decision to leave Rutgers after just one year to enter the 2025 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The forward, currently ranked No. 3 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/draft\/bestavailable\">Espn&#8217;s Top 100<\/a>, ended his freshman season with 17.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, one steal and 1.3 blocks per game, showing remarkable scoring talent.<\/p>\n<p>A prospect less \u2018safe\u2019 than others, but with significant room for improvement on both ends of the court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m nowhere close to reaching my potential,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44815023\/ace-bailey-declares-nba-draft-one-year-rutgers\"> Bailey said<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m still young, still learning, but I&#8217;m working every day. My playmaking is improving. NBA teams will get an energetic player ready to talk, lead and put people in the right positions. I can take a good team to a better level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bailey is one of the youngest and most promising prospects in the 2025 Draft Class<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":429697,"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":[399,401],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-439171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/ace-bailey-nba-draft-2025.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439171","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=439171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439171"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439171"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439171"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}