{"id":701862,"date":"2026-04-06T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701862\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:57:17","slug":"wisconsin-guard-john-blackwell-declares-for-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701862\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin guard John Blackwell declares for NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JAMES MADDEN<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin star guard John Blackwell is declaring for the 2026 NBA Draft and entering the transfer portal, he announced Monday. Blackwell will maintain his college eligibility and go through the draft process.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-4 guard from Bloomfield Hills, MI, Blackwell spent three seasons with the Badgers, playing in 34+ games in all three seasons. <\/p>\n<p>Blackwell averaged 19.1 points and 5.1 rebounds per game this season for the Badgers, in their run to the NCAA Tournament. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll also become one of the top names in the transfer portal, should he decide to return to college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jmadden1632\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow James Madden on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">r<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JAMES MADDEN Wisconsin star guard John Blackwell is declaring for the 2026 NBA Draft and entering the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-701862","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\/701862","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=701862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}