{"id":276735,"date":"2025-11-11T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:13:06","slug":"reaction-alabama-vs-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276735\/","title":{"rendered":"REACTION: Alabama vs. St. John\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!nvvT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F099dc7c1-38f2-4678-859e-1e7ae784c03d_1272x518.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/099dc7c1-38f2-4678-859e-1e7ae784c03d_1272.jpeg\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/099dc7c1-38f2-4678-859e-1e7ae784c03d_1272x518.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:518,&quot;width&quot;:1272,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1259940,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.noceilingsnba.com\/i\/178421399?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F099dc7c1-38f2-4678-859e-1e7ae784c03d_1272x518.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-fullscreen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a born and bred New Yorker, there are few things better than a high-stakes clash at Madison Square Garden. The atmosphere is always electric, and it\u2019s the perfect pressure cooker for NBA prospects. In a matinee thriller between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the St. John\u2019s Red Storm, we didn\u2019t just get a great game; we may have witnessed the emergence of a bona fide lotto pick and the arrival of a sleeper destined for draft boards.<\/p>\n<p>I came away with a notebook full of real-time reactions, so here are my raw and unfiltered thoughts on the most intriguing prospects from a packed afternoon at the Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a born and bred New Yorker, there are few things better than a high-stakes clash at Madison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-276735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}