{"id":132,"date":"2025-04-26T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/132\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T00:08:08","slug":"projected-first-rounder-joan-beringer-entering-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/132\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected First-Rounder Joan Beringer Entering Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

French big man Joan Beringer<\/a> is entering the 2025 NBA draft, he tells Jonathan Givony of ESPN<\/a>. The 18-year-old is ranked No. 17 on ESPN\u2019s latest big board, making him a projected first-round pick.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been my dream to play in the NBA,\u201d Beringer said. \u201cIt\u2019s a good moment to go. I want to say thank you to my teammates. They made everything a lot easier for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beringer has spent the 2024\/25 campaign with Slovenian club Cedevita Olimpija, which competes in the Adriatic League and EuroCup. He has averaged 4.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 17 EuroCup appearances (17.5 minutes per game).<\/p>\n

As Givony details, Beringer is an intriguing prospect for multiple reasons. He\u2019s the third-youngest player in the draft class, as he won\u2019t turn 19 until November. He also wasn\u2019t on NBA radars entering the season, as Beringer says he had never touched a basketball until the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cI first started playing basketball in the street with my friends,\u201d Beringer said. \u201cJust for fun. I played football before, and there was a basketball court nearby the field. My feet got too big, so I couldn\u2019t find soccer cleats anymore. I was 6-8 then. I\u2019m 6-11 without shoes now. I joined a small club, Saint-Joseph Strasbourg, two weeks later. My work and willingness to go after things are the reason I was able to be where I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a 7\u20195\u2033 wingspan, impressive timing, and exceptional mobility, Beringer is viewed as having considerable defensive upside, according to Givony, who notes that the teenage center led the ABA in block percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French big man Joan Beringer is entering the 2025 NBA draft, he tells Jonathan Givony of ESPN. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,151,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-joan-beringer","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","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=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}