{"id":198256,"date":"2025-07-28T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/198256\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:06:10","slug":"andrija-jelavic-was-made-in-a-lab-to-play-for-mark-pope-at-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/198256\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrija Jelavi\u0107 was made in a lab to play for Mark Pope at Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming Kentucky men\u2019s basketball freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/andrija-jelavic-250589\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrija Jelavi\u0107<\/a> is still in the process of making his way to Lexington from his home country of Croatia, but that isn\u2019t stopping us from looking ahead to what he can bring to the Wildcats in 2025-26. <\/p>\n<p>Jelavi\u0107 isn\u2019t your traditional college freshman, having spent the last two seasons playing professionally for Mega Super Bet in the ABA (Adriatic) League. He\u2019ll come to Kentucky as a 21-year-old with plenty of experience under his belt. The 6-foot-10 stretch forward averaged 10.7 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.6 assists per outing this past season while shooting 48.5 percent from the field, 30.5 percent from deep, and 69.4 percent from the line across 29 games played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to get him here as soon as possible,\u201d Kentucky head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mark-pope-132332\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Pope<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/mark-pope-hoping-andrija-jelavic-campus-soon-possible\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said earlier this week<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s doing great. He\u2019s training back home and I expect him to come and have a great impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But how quickly will that production overseas translate to playing in the Southeastern Conference? That\u2019s what the KSR crew is here to figure out. Dive into the video below to learn more about Jelavi\u0107\u2019s fit in Pope\u2019s system. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More Kentucky News and Views on the KSR YouTube Channel<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Sports Radio has expanded its coverage of the Wildcats in the most ridiculous manner possible on our YouTube Channel. Here you will be able to find interviews with coaches and players, as well as commentary from the KSR crew. From Rapid Reactions following big events to our lengthy lineup of live shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxlgPWNLi8UInV0HHhfSQCg?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">subscribe to the KSR YouTube Channel<\/a> to stay up to date on everything happening around the Big Blue Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incoming Kentucky men\u2019s basketball freshman Andrija Jelavi\u0107 is still in the process of making his way to Lexington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[4734,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-198256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-andrija-jelavic","9":"tag-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114927946159858287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198256","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=198256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}