{"id":523354,"date":"2026-03-06T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:05:09","slug":"uncs-caleb-wilson-top-nba-prospect-done-for-season-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523354\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC’s Caleb Wilson, top NBA prospect, done for season after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caleb Wilson’s prospects heading into the 2026 NBA Draft may have taken a big hit on Friday.<\/p>\n

The University of North Carolina freshman forward will reportedly miss the rest of the NCAA season after undergoing surgery to repair a broken right thumb, the team announced<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Wilson suffered the injury in a non-contact drill in practice on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old has put himself in the running to be the No. 1 overall pick in June, currently projected as the fourth-best prospect by The Athletic<\/a>. Wilson has averaged 19.8 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.4 blocks on 31.3 minutes per game through 24 appearances.<\/p>\n

Wilson ranks top 50 among all Division I players in average points and rebounds, and total double-doubles (11) this season.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta native has helped spearhead the Tar Heels to a 24-6 record (12-5 in conference play), ranking 17th in the country and 4th in the ACC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caleb Wilson’s prospects heading into the 2026 NBA Draft may have taken a big hit on Friday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-523354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}