{"id":701719,"date":"2026-04-06T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701719\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:26:13","slug":"badgers-blackwell-to-enter-nba-draft-process-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701719\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers&#8217; Blackwell to enter NBA Draft process, transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON (WLUK) &#8212; Wisconsin Badgers guard John Blackwell says he&#8217;s entering the NBA Draft process and the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to share that I won&#8217;t be returning to play for the Badgers next season,&#8221; Blackwell wrote on social media Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was one of the hardest decisions I&#8217;ve ever had to make because my experience here has been nothing short of incredible,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The junior ends his Wisconsin career with 1,519 total points in a Badgers uniform. He was second on the team with 19.1 points per game in 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON (WLUK) &#8212; Wisconsin Badgers guard John Blackwell says he&#8217;s entering the NBA Draft process and the transfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-701719","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\/116358938343771253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701719","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=701719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}