{"id":691207,"date":"2026-05-24T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691207\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:40:09","slug":"nba-executives-say-john-blackwell-made-correct-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691207\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA executives say John Blackwell made correct decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation on John Blackwell&#8217;s future was put to rest last week as the former Wisconsin guard officially withdrew from the NBA Draft, making his transfer to Duke official.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on the decision, many draft experts think Blackwell made the right choice. Recently, basketball analyst John Goodman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoodmanHoops\/status\/2057840892942090380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2057840892942090380%7Ctwgr%5Ec084a07cfcb5d3329b498192ed43e01e8aa025db%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseaofblue.com%2Fkentucky-wildcats-basketball%2F172848%2Fmalachi-moreno-milan-momcilovic-should-return-to-school-nba-decision\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:interviewed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;interviewed&quot;}\" class=\"link \">interviewed<\/a> 10 NBA executives, asking them which players should stay in the draft and which should return to school. Blackwell was among the players asked about, and the results were unanimous.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Of the 10 scouts polled, all of them advised Blackwell to return to school for his senior season. This lines up with the league&#8217;s consensus, as Blackwell was predicted to go undrafted (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/draft\/bestavailable\/_\/position\/ovr\/page\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ranked;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;ranked&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ranked<\/a> outside the top-80 prospects).<\/p>\n<p>Now, officially a Blue Devil, Blackwell will have another year to improve his draft stock while Duke hunts for another NCAA title.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Duke Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/dukewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/duke\/mens-basketball\/2026\/05\/24\/john-blackwell-nba-draft-decision-duke-basketball\/90240273007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBA execs say John Blackwell made right decision returning to college;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NBA execs say John Blackwell made right decision returning to college&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NBA execs say John Blackwell made right decision returning to college<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speculation on John Blackwell&#8217;s future was put to rest last week as the former Wisconsin guard officially withdrew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[79489,49,48,239165,119693,459,82],"class_list":["post-691207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-blackwell","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-john-blackwell","tag-john-goodman","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691207","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=691207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}