{"id":699602,"date":"2026-04-05T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699602\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:39:13","slug":"spurs-add-shooting-with-uconn-star-in-latest-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699602\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Add Shooting with UConn Star in Latest Mock Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Karaban sprinted off a curl, caught the ball while moving away from the basket, turned and then fired a massive 3-pointer in the closing minute of UConn\u2019s epic comeback over Duke in the Elite 8. The moment is emblematic of his shooting ability, which would be a positive addition to the Spurs,&#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;He lacks the upside to be a star, but the Spurs have enough of those players. What they need is a connector who enhances the stars around him, and Karaban is one of the best in this draft class at doing just that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Karaban sprinted off a curl, caught the ball while moving away from the basket, turned and then fired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-699602","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\/699602","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=699602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}