{"id":125644,"date":"2025-06-26T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/125644\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:29:10","slug":"timberwolves-select-joan-beringer-at-no-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/125644\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves Select Joan Beringer At No. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Timberwolves have used their first-round pick at No. 17 overall to draft center Joan Beringer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"One of the top international players in this year\u2019s draft class, Beringer had been playing for Cedevita Olimpija in Slovenia, where he averaged 4.9 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks in 18.3 minutes per game in 30 outings in the ABA League this past season.<\/p>\n

The young Frenchman, who will turn 19 in November, has only played basketball for four years and is still learning the game, notes ESPN\u2019s Jonathan Givony<\/a>, who adds that Beringer possesses \u201coutstanding\u201d physical tools, including the coveted combination of defensive mobility and rim-protecting ability.<\/p>\n

Beringer will have time to develop in Minnesota playing behind Rudy Gobert<\/a> and Naz Reid<\/a>, assuming the Wolves are able to retain the latter in free agency. They project to have plenty of front court depth, so Beringer won\u2019t have to make an immediate impact for a team that has been to the Western Conference Finals in back-to-back years.<\/p>\n

Beringer is still growing, according to Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo of ESPN<\/a>, who report that he measured a half-inch taller when he attended the NBA\u2019s European combine last week. He was already an elite shot blocker for his Slovenian team, and he could develop into an eventual replacement for Gobert.<\/p>\n

Beringer was one of the most well-traveled players during the pre-draft process. He reportedly had workouts in Chicago, Brooklyn, San Antonio, Atlanta, Memphis and Houston as well as Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Timberwolves have used their first-round pick at No. 17 overall to draft center Joan Beringer. One of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-125644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-joan-beringer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114748494064423517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125644","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=125644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}