{"id":226733,"date":"2026-04-10T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226733\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:59:10","slug":"denzel-aberdeen-commits-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226733\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Aberdeen commits to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; Former Florida Gator-turned-Kentucky Wildcat Denzel Aberdeen has committed to play next season with Florida, per Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Aberdeen, who entered the transfer portal earlier this week, played three seasons with Florida before spending last year at UK. He will need an NCAA waiver in his return next season with the Gators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Florida native averaged 13.5 points and 3.4 assists last season with the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/page\/wkyt-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WKYT Streaming Apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MEPHTWNVMREWLEQQWWFJM27ZMA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WKYT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; Former Florida Gator-turned-Kentucky Wildcat Denzel Aberdeen has committed to play next season with Florida,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3108,28,30,29,142,62],"class_list":["post-226733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ncaa","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}