{"id":703109,"date":"2026-04-07T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:16","slug":"mm-4-7-julian-reese-continues-red-hot-start-to-nba-career-with-3rd-double-double-in-9-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703109\/","title":{"rendered":"MM 4.7: Julian Reese continues red-hot start to NBA career with 3rd double-double in 9 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The vast majority of Maryland men\u2019s basketball fans would have thought Derik Queen would be the biggest Maryland rookie story in the NBA this season. Enter the last month of Julian Reese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reese signed out of the G-League with the Washington Wizards on a two-way contract in late February. And he continues to take advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Baltimore native posted his third double-double in nine career games Sunday in a loss to the Brooklyn Nets, with 17 points and 16 rebounds. He\u2019s the fastest player to 100 career rebounds since Shaquille O\u2019Neal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reese hasn\u2019t played enough to qualify for stat leaderboards, but if he did, he\u2019d be one of just nine players in the NBA averaging a double-double (10.8 points, 11.3 rebounds per game). Reese has left no doubt that he\u2019s got a future in the league \u2014 and perhaps a long-term future.<\/p>\n<p>In other news<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maryland women\u2019s basketball guard Kaylene Smikle will enter the transfer portal, she announced Monday on Instagram. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realapp\/status\/2040916366299996467\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ben Messinger had the story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ben Messinger had the story&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ben Messinger had the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maryland women\u2019s golf finished tied for third in the Terps Invitational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maryland women\u2019s lacrosse remains at No. 1 in the country as the only undefeated Division I team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maryland women\u2019s basketball slotted in as No. 20 in the final Associated Press poll of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maryland football alum offensive tackle Alan Herron will work out with the Washington Commanders ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Former Maryland men\u2019s basketball big man Braden Pierce is entering the transfer portal after a year with Kevin Willard at Villanova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vast majority of Maryland men\u2019s basketball fans would have thought Derik Queen would be the biggest Maryland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,247,803,18348,6,7133,682,10293,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-703109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-derik-queen","11":"tag-julian-reese","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints","14":"tag-washington","15":"tag-washington-commanders","16":"tag-washington-wizards","17":"tag-washingtonwizards","18":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116363058502966221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703109","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=703109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}