{"id":761597,"date":"2026-06-15T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/761597\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:36:13","slug":"jared-mccain-takes-in-the-us-paraguay-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/761597\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared McCain Takes In The US-Paraguay Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _174s0un6 _174s0un5 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/news\/thunder-gm-sam-presti-speaks-on-jared-mccain-acquisition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J<\/a>ared McCain\u2019s NBA career has had an odd start. The former Duke star was a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year last season when he had a knee injury in mid-December. He suffered a thumb injury this year, and Philadelphia had a deeper backcourt rotation as well, and he didn\u2019t get that much time. Then, on February 4th, he was traded to Oklahoma City, and by the end of the season, emerged as a deadly weapon for the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Maybe next year, we can see what he can do across a full season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Now that he has some downtime, the Sacramento native and his OKC teammate, Jalen Williams, hit L.A. to<a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunderwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2026\/06\/13\/jalen-williams-jared-mccain-attend-usas-win-in-2026-fifa-world-cup\/90539881007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> take in Friday\u2019s U.S.-Paraguay match in the World Cup<\/a>. The U.S. rolled, of course, winning 4-1, so maybe they should ask the pair back for their next match as a good-luck charm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here are some more links about McCain and how well things have worked out for him in OKC so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared McCain\u2019s NBA career has had an odd start. The former Duke star was a leading candidate for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[9008,7,37710],"class_list":["post-761597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-alumni","tag-basketball","tag-main"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116753923029357652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761597","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=761597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}