{"id":732171,"date":"2026-05-12T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732171\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:45:21","slug":"andrej-stojakovic-put-on-a-show-to-start-nba-draft-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732171\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrej Stojakovic put on a show to start NBA Draft Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Uhhhhhh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Andrej might not be coming back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Illini wing put on a show Monday night at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago. A good week for Stojakovic in the Windy City could push him to stay in the NBA Draft rather than return for his second year at Illinois (and his fourth overall in college).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In the maximum vertical jump, Stojakovic finished atop the leaderboard at 41.5 inches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While he won\u2019t participate in the 5-on-5 scrimmages at the combine, Stojakovic is making a name for himself with his athleticism, which he flashed at times last year off the bench during Illinois\u2019 Final Four run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019d be great to have him back in orange and blue next year, but you can\u2019t blame him if he\u2019s able to assure that he\u2019s a high second-round pick and has a real chance at the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uhhhhhh. Andrej might not be coming back. The Illini wing put on a show Monday night at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2047,7,568,6,12,3408,4574],"class_list":["post-732171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-andrej-stojakovic","tag-basketball","tag-getty-images","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-draft-combine","tag-stojakovic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116560260201748290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732171","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=732171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}