{"id":695051,"date":"2026-04-03T01:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695051\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:47:29","slug":"kansas-forward-flory-bidunga-reportedly-plans-to-declare-for-nba-draft-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695051\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas forward Flory Bidunga reportedly plans to declare for NBA Draft, enter transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Yahoo Sports;\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img alt=\"Yahoo Sports\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"188\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a6ae9d30-d9ed-11eb-97f6-17d4afb119eb.png\"\/><\/a>Fri, April 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1884fd46bd69dd9f22c0e60c97863651.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kansas forward Flory Bidunga plans to declare for the NBA Draft. However, the sophomore also intends to maintain his college eligibility by entering the NCAA transfer portal, <a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/2039872116804223407\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel reports;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bidunga, a 6-foot-10 forward, earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors this season and was named to both the All-Big 12 team and conference All-Defensive team. He averaged 13.3 points and nine rebounds, while ranking <a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/stats\/basketball-men\/d1\/current\/individual\/138\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:fifth in the nation;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">fifth in the nation<\/a> with 2.6 blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p>This breaking news story will be updated with more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, April 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM UTC Kansas forward Flory Bidunga plans to declare for the NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,3448,2465,2469,6,12,7989,86256],"class_list":{"0":"post-695051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-eligibility","10":"tag-flory-bidunga","11":"tag-kansas","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-draft","14":"tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","15":"tag-pete-thamel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116338259287951650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695051","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=695051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}