{"id":694072,"date":"2026-04-02T15:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:13:16","slug":"darius-acuff-nba-draft-value-should-be-appreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694072\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Acuff NBA draft value should be appreciated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Acuff was an iron man, a marathon runner, for this Arkansas team. He did what he did while logging maximum minutes and being asked to do so much at the offensive end of the floor. It&#8217;s easy to pounce on a player for taking plays off on defense, but the uncomfortable and inconvenient truth for Arkansas fans and NBA draft analysts is that Acuff had to make tradeoffs. It doesn&#8217;t sound professional, but in a limited and very imperfect situation, Acuff did have to sacrifice some defense for his offense. All in all, Arkansas did pretty well as a result of that calculated move. The Hogs got a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament, reached the Sweet 16, and won the SEC Tournament. Not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Acuff was an iron man, a marathon runner, for this Arkansas team. He did what he did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-694072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116335765623829132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694072","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=694072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}