{"id":746508,"date":"2026-04-23T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746508\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:42:12","slug":"duke-guard-isaiah-showtime-slim-evans-declares-for-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746508\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke guard Isaiah \u2018Showtime Slim\u2019 Evans declares for 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/sports\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/sports\/\"> Duke Blue Devils<\/a> star Isaiah \u201cShowtime Slim\u201d Evans announced on Wednesday that he will be forgoing his remaining years of eligibility and entering the NBA Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The former North Mecklenburg star announced on Instagram on Wednesday, April 22, that he will be entering the 2026 NBA Draft after two seasons in Durham. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Evans was a Third-Team All-ACC selection after averaging 15 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sharpshooter had nine games last season with at least 20 points are more. The Blue Devils were 9-0 in those games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In his two year career at Duke, Showtime Slim made 163 3-points while shooting 38% from behind the arc. He also won 70 games with the Blue Devils, including a trip to the Final Four and the Elite 8. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Evans is projected to be a late-lottery to a mid-first round pick for the 2026 NBA Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><b>Also read &#8211;&gt; <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/04\/21\/charlotte-native-projected-1st-round-nfl-draft-pick-panthers-radar\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/04\/21\/charlotte-native-projected-1st-round-nfl-draft-pick-panthers-radar\/\"><b>Charlotte native a projected 1st round NFL draft pick, on Panthers\u2019 radar<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; Duke Blue Devils star Isaiah \u201cShowtime Slim\u201d Evans announced on Wednesday that he will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":746509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[288828,40085,1260,11009,307363,307364,62,283934,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-746508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-elite-eight","tag-march-madness","tag-nba","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-regional-championship","tag-regional-semifinal","tag-sports","tag-sweet-16","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116451249302385240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746508","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=746508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}