{"id":444890,"date":"2025-06-03T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=444890"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:59:14","slug":"nba-draft-2025-noa-essengues-stock-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-draft-2025-noa-essengues-stock-is-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draft 2025: Noa Essengue&#8217;s stock is on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noa Essengue, the 18-year-old French forward playing for ratiopharm Ulm, continues to climb draft boards ahead of the 2025 NBA Draft. ESPN recently ranked him No. 9 in their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/draft\/bestavailable\"> latest Top 100 prospects list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In EuroCup action this season, Essengue averaged 12.3 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 1.4 steals in just 23 minutes per game, shooting 56% from the field and 73% from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, he posted a new career-high with 22 points and 14 rebounds in Ulm\u2019s Game 1 win over W\u00fcrzburg in the BBL semifinals, further solidifying his status as one of the most intriguing international prospects.<br \/>\nWatch the highlights of his performance below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Career-high 22 points and 14 rebounds for Noa Essengue exploded in Game 1 of the German playoff semis. The 18-year-old showcased his skill level, fluidity, defensive versatility, and feel for the game, knocking down a pair of 3s and bringing impressive intensity on both ends. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JLMjHZGsF0\">pic.twitter.com\/JLMjHZGsF0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1929883395074527735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 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>In EuroCup action this season, Essengue averaged 12.3 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 1.4 steals in just 23 minutes per game, shooting 56% from the field and 73% from the free throw line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":444889,"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":[40,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-444890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbl","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/noa-essengue-nba-draft.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444890","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=444890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444890"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=444890"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=444890"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=444890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}