{"id":60065,"date":"2025-05-27T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/60065\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:28:09","slug":"joson-sanon-pulls-out-of-2025-nba-draft-to-play-for-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/60065\/","title":{"rendered":"Joson Sanon pulls out of 2025 NBA Draft to play for St. John&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The last question mark for St. John\u2019s loaded roster next season has been answered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/26\/sports\/st-johns-lands-transfer-joson-sanon-after-march-madness-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona State transfer Joson Sanon<\/a> has pulled out of the NBA draft and will join Rick Pitino\u2019s team, he told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-5 Sanon was the first of seven transfers to commit to the Johnnies, but still <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/26\/sports\/st-johns-transfer-joson-sanon-declares-for-nba-draftbut-plans-to-stay-with-team-next-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wanted to go through the draft process<\/a>. After workouts with the Wizards, Celtics and Hornets, he opted to return to school for his sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>His agent, Derek Malloy of Lift Sports Management, said Sanon had second-round options on the table, but he wanted to play his way into a better spot in a year. The feedback they received was that Sanon has lottery pick potential with further development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The last question mark for St. John\u2019s loaded roster next season has been answered. Arizona State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,217,6,12,1284,66,196,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-60065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-draft","12":"tag-rick-pitino","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-st-johns-red-storm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114581687984272812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60065","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=60065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}