{"id":770058,"date":"2026-06-25T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/770058\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:54:16","slug":"pelicans-jaron-pierre-selected-at-no-58-by-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/770058\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Jaron Pierre: Selected at No. 58 by New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a wager, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Pierre was selected by the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/NO\/new-orleans-pelicans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pelicans<\/a> with the No. 58 overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre has a smooth shooting stroke and is confident firing away from deep, but he doesn&#8217;t bring much to the table outside of offense. The 6-foot-5 guard averaged 17.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 2.4 triples and 1.0 steals per game on 46\/37\/76 shooting splits during his senior season at SMU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,2825,18370,6,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":["post-770058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-jaron-pierre-jr","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116809909102745415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770058","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=770058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}