{"id":20211,"date":"2023-04-20T04:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20211"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:15:59","slug":"off-to-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/off-to-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Off To The Pros?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/zedey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20212\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/zedey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/zedey.jpg 829w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/zedey-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/zedey-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a>Earlier this week, Zach Edey announced that he was entering the NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility.\u00a0 After winning nearly every accolade available this past season, there is little more for him to prove in college basketball (except maybe a decent showing in the Tournament).\u00a0 The big question is going to be how his game translates to the NBA, where the center position has become less and less prominent over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to guess, I&#8217;d say Edey winds up back in West Lafayette for another go-around.\u00a0 My guess is he would be a second round pick, at best, and that he&#8217;d end up spending more time in the development league than on an NBA roster.\u00a0 He can probably make more money through NIL deals back in school.\u00a0 But, only time will tell.\u00a0 The NBA draft is June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Zach Edey announced that he was entering the NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility.\u00a0 After winning nearly every accolade available this past season, there is little more for him to prove in college basketball (except maybe a decent showing in the Tournament).\u00a0 The big question is going to be how his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[289,10586,1527,10585],"class_list":["post-20211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-boiler-up","tag-nba-draft","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-zach-edey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20213,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20211\/revisions\/20213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}