{"id":697864,"date":"2026-04-04T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:36:14","slug":"mavs-draft-final-four-freshman-keaton-wagler-in-nba-mock-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697864\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs Draft Final Four Freshman Keaton Wagler In NBA Mock Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wagler was never expected to be a one-and-done, and yet here he is, as the star freshman of a Final Four team,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/article\/nba-mock-draft-where-aj-dybantsa-cameron-boozer-darryn-peterson-and-other-top-prospects-could-land-150410715.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Connor writes<\/a>. &#8220;There\u2019s a chance Wagler goes much higher than this, but if he lands with Dallas it\u2019s hard to imagine a better situation. Kyrie Irving is a different style point guard, but could teach the intricacies of finishing below the rim. They could complement each other in the short-term by trading on-ball and off-ball reps. And in the long-term, Wagler could ascend alongside a superstar in Cooper Flagg.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wagler was never expected to be a one-and-done, and yet here he is, as the star freshman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697865,"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-697864","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697864","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=697864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}