{"id":1049,"date":"2025-04-26T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/1049\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:41:10","slug":"uconns-mcneeley-declares-for-the-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/1049\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn\u2019s McNeeley declares for the NBA draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; University of Connecticut men\u2019s basketball freshman forward Liam McNeeley declared for the NBA draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McNeeley posted to Instagram on Tuesday that he planned to move on to pursue his childhood dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI can\u2019t thank God enough for the opportunity that I was given this year,\u201d McNeeley wrote. \u201cI thank my coaches and teammates that I was blessed to play alongside, and I am very grateful for the time we spent together. I have been honored to play for this historic and legendary program. I will do my best to carry on the legacy of UConn, as I pursue my childhood dream of declaring for the 2025 NBA draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/bleacher-report-2025-nba-mock-draft-final-four\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/bleacher-report-2025-nba-mock-draft-final-four\" target=\"_blank\">Bleacher Report this week<\/a> put McNeely as the 16th pick of the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If that pans out, he would join fellow UConn alumni Stephon Castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McNeeley averaged 14.5 points, 6 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game for the Huskies. He shot 38.1 percent from the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; University of Connecticut men\u2019s basketball freshman forward Liam McNeeley declared for the NBA draft.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,217,926,928,925,927,921,924,6,12,474,930,922,923,929],"class_list":{"0":"post-1049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-connecticut-news","11":"tag-connecticut-sports","12":"tag-ct-news","13":"tag-ct-sports","14":"tag-liam-mcneeley","15":"tag-liam-mcneeley-nba-draft","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-draft","18":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","19":"tag-stephon-castle","20":"tag-uconn","21":"tag-uconn-huskies","22":"tag-university-of-connecticut"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}