{"id":2602,"date":"2025-04-28T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/2602\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:47:07","slug":"senegalese-center-mouhamed-faye-declares-for-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/2602\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese center Mouhamed Faye declares for draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: Reggio Emilia&#8217;s Momo Faye has declared for the 2025 NBA draft, agent Matteo Comellini told ESPN. The 6&#8217;11, Senegalese center with a 7&#8217;5 wingspan is averaging 9.1 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game in 21 minutes per game in the Italian league and BCL. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2arPFF53hm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2arPFF53hm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1916589708940890120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senegalese center Mouhamed Faye is declaring for the 2025 NBA draft after playing with Reggio Emilia in Italy, according to Jonathan Givony of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Faye is averaging 8.9 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.5 blocks on 64.5% shooting from the field in 42 games across all league competitions with Reggio Emilia. He has scored in double figures 18 times, including a season-high 20 points and nine rebounds on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-10 standout is considered a potential second-round pick this year, given his scoring ability down low and rim protection with his reported 7-foot, 5-inch wingspan. He can rebound at a high level and clean up the offensive glass, averaging 2.4 boards on that end of the court.<\/p>\n<p>Faye has also represented Senegal in the 2022 FIBA U18 African Championship, averaging 18.2 points, 13.7 rebounds, 1.3 blocks and one steal on 70.8% shooting from the field in six games. He closed out the tournament with a 31-point, 19-rebound performance.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is among a talented group of international prospects, joining the likes of Noa Essengue, Kasparas Jaku\u010dionis, Khaman Maluach, Ben Saraf and Nolan Traor\u00e9, among others. They are all considered first-round picks, with some expected to go in the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Faye will be a late arrival to the United States for the predraft process, with his team on track to qualify for the LBA playoffs. He will likely have the opportunity to participate in a draft combine in June for prospects still playing with their international teams.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS: Reggio Emilia&#8217;s Momo Faye has declared for the 2025 NBA draft, agent Matteo Comellini told ESPN. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,98,130,133,131,1765,70,85,6,12,67,61,134,132,66,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-2602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-draft","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-espn-inc","12":"tag-inc","13":"tag-italy","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114413544594999246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}