{"id":188891,"date":"2025-08-31T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188891\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:35:12","slug":"basketball-adds-big-man-musa-sagnia-better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188891\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Adds Big Man Musa Sagnia &#8211; Better Late Than Never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to the NC State academic calendar Friday August 29 was \u201cCensus Date \/ Official Enrollment Date\u201d which is defined as \u201cLast day to add a course with permission of instructor.\u201d So it had to be done by then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>This could fill a need we were all concerned about<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In his press conference earlier this summer, Coach Wade said \u201cWe\u2019ve gotta get [Lubin] a little bit more help down there,\u201d\u2026 \u201cHe\u2019s done a great job. He\u2019s been a warrior for us, but we\u2019ve got to get him a little more help.\u201d After the Mbiya commitment fell apart, the staff pivoted as quickly as possible but by that time there weren\u2019t many choices in the transfer portal. They signed 6\u201910\u201d Scottie Ebube, a backup center out of Wyoming. Coach Wade hinted during the summer that the staff was still looking internationally for another player. And here he is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Musa Sagnia is 22 years old (2\/13\/\u201903), from Fajara, The Gambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He has played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedraftreview.com\/?view=article&amp;id=13778:musa-sagnia&amp;catid=637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 seasons of professional ball<\/a> mostly for BAXI Maresa based in Manresa, Spain. (about an hour north of Barcelona) BAXI Maresa is part of the Liga ACB, the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He was elected to the Spanish ACB Best Young Team in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedraftreview.com\/?view=article&amp;id=13778:musa-sagnia&amp;catid=637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draft Status: <\/a>He declared for both the 2023 and 2024 drafts as an early entrant, but withdrew. Due to his age, he was automatically eligible for the 2025 NBA draft but was not drafted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Career highs: 24 pts, 15 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocked shots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the NC State academic calendar Friday August 29 was \u201cCensus Date \/ Official Enrollment Date\u201d which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,30317,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-188891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nc-state-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115121994051909076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}