{"id":492104,"date":"2026-04-09T21:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492104"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:08:52","slug":"ebuka-okorie-declares-for-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ebuka-okorie-declares-for-2026-nba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebuka Okorie Declares for 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ebuka Okorie plans to enter the 2026 NBA Draft, as reported <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/2042306330694652134\">by Jonathan Givony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old guard is coming off an outstanding freshman season at Stanford, where he averaged 23.2 points (7th in Division I, 1st in the ACC) per game, along with 3.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game, shooting 46% from the field, 35% from three-point range, and 82% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Currently ranked No. 38 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46886245\/2026-nba-draft-big-board-rankings-top-100-prospects-players\">Espn&#8217;s Top 100<\/a>, Okorie could still return to Stanford if he ultimately decides to postpone his transition to the NBA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stanford G Ebuka Okorie Regular Season Highlights | 2025\u201326 ACC Men\u2019s Basketball\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ss-_Jaaa3gs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 18-year-old guard is coming off an outstanding freshman season at Stanford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":492103,"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92,93],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-ncaa","typology-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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