{"id":709940,"date":"2026-04-13T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:18:20","slug":"potential-top-5-pick-wilson-declares-for-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709940\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential top-5 pick Wilson declares for NBA draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina forward <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/ncaab\/players\/172616\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/ncaab\/players\/172616\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Wilson<\/a> declared for the 2026 NBA Draft on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A consensus top-five draft pick, Wilson averaged 19.8 points and 9.4 rebounds as a freshman this past season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This past year has been the most fun year of my life, although it has been filled with a lot of growth and adversity,&#8221; Wilson said in his announcement video. &#8220;I will always cherish this university and the people that make this place what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you CHAPEL HILL\ud83e\ude75 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yd4u8ZVM19\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Yd4u8ZVM19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb Wilson (@CalebWilson2025) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebWilson2025\/status\/2043820810574450999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wilson didn&#8217;t play in the NCAA Tournament after fracturing his thumb in early March, but he&#8217;s expected to be cleared for the NBA&#8217;s predraft process. The 6-foot-10 standout also battled a hand injury in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old led the Tar Heels in scoring, rebounding, steals, and blocks per game before being sidelined.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Carolina forward Caleb Wilson declared for the 2026 NBA Draft on Monday. A consensus top-five draft pick,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-709940","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\/116399957868572122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709940","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=709940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}