{"id":24886,"date":"2025-05-11T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/24886\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T08:12:08","slug":"kentucky-wildcats-place-one-player-on-cbs-sports-big-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/24886\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Wildcats place one player on CBS Sports big board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day the 2025 NBA draft gets a bit closer, and more and more mock drafts and big board are released. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/draft\/prospect-rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Sports&#8217; most recent big board<\/a> lists their top 50 players, and ranks one Kentucky Wildcats player on it, but it&#8217;s not Koby Brea, who is most often cited as the most likely player to be drafted.<\/p>\n<p>Amari Williams has an NBA body, at 6&#8217;11 and 260 lbs. He&#8217;s a terrific rebounder and solid rim protector. He is also a tremendous passer, and facilitated the Wildcats offense for much of the season. However, he is a work in progress on offense who struggles to finish more than a guy his size should.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports, however, must think highly of the Kentucky center, because they have him ranked 48th overall on their board, and he&#8217;s the only Wildcat on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Williams was a big part of the success of the Wildcats. He averaged 10.9 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game. He also did have foul trouble at times this season.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way to know how thing will play out in the draft when it rolls around, but it&#8217;s nice to see Williams getting some recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every day the 2025 NBA draft gets a bit closer, and more and more mock drafts and big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,319,325,98,234,3075,70,85,6,12,67,61,134,132,66,83,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-24886","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","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-draft","12":"tag-kentucky","13":"tag-kentucky-wildcats","14":"tag-national","15":"tag-national-sports","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-draft","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-overall","20":"tag-overall-positive","21":"tag-positive","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-news","24":"tag-wildcats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114488196836191548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886","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=24886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}