{"id":309693,"date":"2025-10-17T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:16:10","slug":"donovan-mitchells-counsel-gave-ian-jackson-green-light-to-choose-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309693\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell&#8217;s counsel gave Ian Jackson &#8216;green light&#8217; to choose St. John&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give one of Rick Pitino\u2019s former stars an assist on Ian Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>NBA superstar Donovan Mitchell, who developed into a lottery pick under Pitino at Louisville, spoke to Jackson during the recruiting process about what it\u2019s like to play for the Hall of Fame coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me that his years with Coach P were difficult years, but if he could do it all over again, he would do it. Him just saying that spoke volumes to me,\u201d Jackson told The Post during St. John\u2019s media day on Thursday. \u201cThat gave me a green light, maybe that\u2019s where I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A North Carolina transfer, the 6-foot-5 Jackson picked St. John\u2019s over USC, Georgia, Illinois and several others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Give one of Rick Pitino\u2019s former stars an assist on Ian Jackson. NBA superstar Donovan Mitchell, who developed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,2076,1317,1337,1338,30692,62,2225,1378,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-309693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-rick-pitino","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-st-johns-red-storm","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115387340503537489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309693","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=309693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}