{"id":631494,"date":"2026-03-01T03:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/631494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:02:03","slug":"spurs-julian-champagnie-tells-the-post-he-has-that-chip-on-my-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/631494\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs&#8217; Julian Champagnie tells The Post he has &#8216;that chip on my shoulder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming home is always special for Julian Champagnie because of the reminder it provides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It brings back memories of how far he has come, from an unranked prospect coming out of Bishop Loughlin High School and going undrafted despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/19\/sports\/julian-champagnie-makes-confident-st-johns-prediction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sterling three-year career at St. John\u2019s<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year that is the case, more than most, due to his breakout season for one of the NBA\u2019s top teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always try to walk with that chip on my shoulder, knowing that I didn\u2019t get picked and you can still make s\u2013t work,\u201d the 24-year-old sharpshooting wing from Brooklyn told The Post on Saturday after practice at Nike headquarters in midtown Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming home is always special for Julian Champagnie because of the reminder it provides.\u00a0 It brings back memories&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,217,1997,4076,6,969,474,4075,4074,66,196,534,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-631494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-julian-champagnie","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sanantoniospurs","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-spurs","20":"tag-st-johns-red-storm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116151697731202760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631494","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=631494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}