{"id":322716,"date":"2025-10-22T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322716\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:37:11","slug":"nba-chance-couldnt-keep-zuby-ejiofor-from-chasing-st-johns-crescendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322716\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA chance couldn&#8217;t keep Zuby Ejiofor from chasing St. John&#8217;s crescendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opportunity was there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was relayed to Zuby Ejiofor by his agent that if he chose to test the NBA draft waters, a combine invite would be extended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was only one problem: Leaving college meant leaving Rick Pitino. He wasn\u2019t ready to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfinished business, right?\u201d the St. John\u2019s star forward said on Tuesday at Big East media day inside the Garden. \u201cThere was still a level I could tap into in my game. I wanted to improve on the weaknesses I had last year. I wanted to leave college on the highest note possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opportunity was there.\u00a0 It was relayed to Zuby Ejiofor by his agent that if he chose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[30695,2076,1260,62,2632,2225,1378,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-322716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-big-east","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-columnists","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-st-johns-red-storm","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115415498385137023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322716","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=322716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}