{"id":475783,"date":"2025-12-24T20:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475783"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:56:41","slug":"former-nba-draft-pick-james-nnaji-set-to-continue-career-at-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/former-nba-draft-pick-james-nnaji-set-to-continue-career-at-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA Draft Pick James Nnaji Set to Continue Career at Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the new economic landscape of college basketball, anything is possible \u2014 including a big man selected in the NBA Draft just two years ago deciding to continue his career at Baylor.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re talking about James Nnaji, the No. 31 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, who according to Jonathan Givony has already received clearance to suit up for the Bears this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old, developed in Barcelona\u2019s system, was without a team after appearing in the Summer League with the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Nnaji played for Girona in Spain and Merkezefendi in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEWS: James Nnaji, the No. 31 pick in the 2023 NBA draft, has enrolled at Baylor, agents Gerard Raventos and Deirunas Visockas of Gersh Sports told DraftExpress.<\/p>\n<p>A monumental development: a former NBA draft pick is immediately eligible to play college basketball this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8S9aK6MWR3\">pic.twitter.com\/8S9aK6MWR3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/2003904709397192922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 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>Nnaji was the No. 31 pick of the 2023 NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":475782,"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":[93],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-475783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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