{"id":709391,"date":"2026-04-13T04:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709391\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:18:36","slug":"local-basketball-standout-has-a-career-night-for-the-utah-jazz-local-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709391\/","title":{"rendered":"Local basketball standout has a career night for the Utah Jazz | Local Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jazz Lakers Basketball\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload ap-photo full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69dc69c7593ed.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Utah Jazz center Oscar Tshiebwe, left, Jazz guard Bez Mbeng (21) and Los Angeles Lakers forward Jake LaRavia (12) reach for a rebound during the second half of an NBA basketball game April 12, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo\/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)<\/p>\n<p>                                    Jayne Kamin-Oncea<\/p>\n<p>Former Kennedy Catholic graduate and current Utah Jazz center Oscar Tshiebwe scored a career-high 29 points in the teams 131-107 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Tshiebwe also had 17 rebounds and three assists in 32 minutes for Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The former Naismith Men\u2019s College Player of the Year (2022) for Kentucky averaged seven points and 6.2 rebounds for the Jazz this season, in his third year in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Utah finished the regular season with a 22-60 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz center Oscar Tshiebwe, left, Jazz guard Bez Mbeng (21) and Los Angeles Lakers forward Jake LaRavia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,4251,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-709391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-local-sports","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116395476335284924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709391","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=709391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}