{"id":19413,"date":"2023-08-04T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2023-08-04T19:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:58:43","slug":"paolo-banchero-remains-the-no-1-pick-after-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/paolo-banchero-remains-the-no-1-pick-after-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Banchero remains the No. 1 pick after one year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_85552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><noscript><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85552\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85552\" src=\"https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg 4335w, https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/USATSI_20157444.jpg?resize=480,320 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-85552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alonzo Adams-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Original Team Pick:\u00a0<\/strong>Jabari Smith Jr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Player Draft Position:\u00a0<\/strong>12th<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who finished as the Rookie of the Year runner-up, takes a massive leap up from his original draft position after a sensational year. He started a bit slowly but eventually settled and emerged as a key player for the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>When it was all said and done, Williams recorded averages of 14.1 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.4 steals on 35.6% shooting from 3-point range. He finished fourth in scoring, fourth in field goals and first in steals among all rookies.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of Williams further strengthened the Thunder\u2019s young core, which already features Shai Gilegous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, Josh Giddey, Lu Dort, Tre Mann and others. Williams has the potential to be one of the top players in this class.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alonzo Adams-USA TODAY Sports Original Team Pick:\u00a0Jabari Smith Jr. Original Player Draft Position:\u00a012th Williams, who finished as the Rookie of the Year runner-up, takes a massive leap up from his original draft position after a sensational year. He started a bit slowly but eventually settled and emerged as a key player for the Thunder. When<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[768,3294,3293,1287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19415,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions\/19415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}