{"id":6966,"date":"2025-05-03T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/6966\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T00:13:08","slug":"former-cal-poly-guard-kobe-sanders-invited-to-nba-draft-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/6966\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cal Poly guard Kobe Sanders invited to NBA Draft Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cal Poly Men\u2019s Basketball guard Kobe Sanders was one of 75 players invited to the 2025 NBA Draft Combine, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/2025-nba-draft-combine-list-of-invites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders and the other prospects will have the opportunity to compete in front of NBA scouts in drills and scrimmages, as well as participate in interviews with teams.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders spent four years at Cal Poly, where he grew as a player and became one of the Mustangs\u2019 premier athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 guard jumped from 7.9 points per game in his junior season to 20.2 in his senior campaign for the Mustangs, earning an All-Big West Honorable Mention. In his final game with Cal Poly, he became the 26th player to ever reach 1,000 points with the team.<\/p>\n<p>After his senior season, Sanders received attention from many major Division I programs, but ultimately transferred to Nevada. In one season with the Wolfpack, he led the team in scoring with 15.8 points per game on 46% shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In Nevada\u2019s second round loss in the Mountain West Tournament, he scored 23 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the effort.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Draft Combine will take place from May 11-18 at Wintrust Arena and the Marriott Marquis in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cal Poly Men\u2019s Basketball guard Kobe Sanders was one of 75 players invited to the 2025 NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,3463,3464,3445,2561,6,12,662],"class_list":{"0":"post-6966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-big-west-mens-basketball","10":"tag-cal-poly","11":"tag-kobe-sanders","12":"tag-mens-basketball","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-draft","15":"tag-nevada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114441014754367029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","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=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}