It\u2019s two new players in as many days for the Johnnies.<\/p>\n
Monday night, it was coveted Syracuse transfer Donnie Freeman<\/a>. On Tuesday, 7-foot Serbian Lazar Stojkovic committed to Rick Pitino and Co.<\/p>\n The 18-year-old European big man is the third international addition for St. John\u2019s, following British point guard Quinn Ellis<\/a> and Montenegrin wing Djordije Jovanovic<\/a>. He was on campus on Monday and was given a tour of the Garden on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Stojkovic has been playing for Crvena Zvezda in the Serbian KLS. He was leading the league in block percentage. He has a very high ceiling, a big man with guard skills who can space the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s two new players in as many days for the Johnnies. Monday night, it was coveted Syracuse transfer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,217,8042,4161,1284,66,196,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-715280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball-transfer-portal","11":"tag-recruiting","12":"tag-rick-pitino","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-st-johns-red-storm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116443705310899612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715280","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=715280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}