{"id":639751,"date":"2026-03-04T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639751\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:07:15","slug":"aj-dybantsa-says-he-might-not-leave-college-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639751\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa says he might not leave college this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BYU star AJ Dybantsa, and potential No. 1 pick in the draft, shared something in <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/aj-dybantsa-sends-unexpected-message-222628705.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a recent interview that caught many off guard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He might not enter the draft this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might not leave college. \u2026 My mom wants me to graduate. But I might leave. I don\u2019t know. You know, the fans might get into my head, talk about, you know, one more year, maybe three more years. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m going to have to talk to my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who knows how serious this statement actually is, but hey props to him for taking his education seriously. And let\u2019s not forget the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sam_vecenie\/status\/2028968512946094521?s=46&amp;t=wMUYOWsynNsJLMOGXXAjJw\" rel=\"nofollow\">impact NIL plays in the decisions<\/a> of college basketball athletes now.<\/p>\n<p>Dybantsa has star written all over him. He\u2019s leading the nation in scoring at 24.9 points per game. He is 6\u20199\u201d and can score from all over the floor. He\u2019s basically a lock to go top 3 and in recent weeks has started to move more toward the consensus No. 1 pick with questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/48011349\/darryn-peterson-availability-kansas-bill-self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darryn Peterson\u2019s injuries and checking himself out of games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.kingsherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Product Banner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Product-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1182\" height=\"330\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be Kangz luck to get the first pick and miss out on drafting a potential franchise player. Not to say there aren\u2019t other excellent options, including Cameron Boozer. But the league also is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47979919\/nba-set-enact-anti-tanking-rules-next-season-sources-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking at changing how the lottery is structured next season as it relates to tanking<\/a>, so who knows what that would mean for next season\u2019s Kings pick.<\/p>\n<p>Next month this horrific season will be over and all attention will shift to the NBA Draft, and discussion around Dybansta will surely be a main topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BYU star AJ Dybantsa, and potential No. 1 pick in the draft, shared something in a recent interview&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[2695,7,17047,17641,4056,6,12,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-639751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-aj-dybantsa","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cameron-boozer","11":"tag-darryn-peterson","12":"tag-kings","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-draft","15":"tag-sacramento","16":"tag-sacramento-kings","17":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116173423532551718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639751","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=639751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}