{"id":227107,"date":"2026-04-11T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227107\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:40:07","slug":"denzel-aberdeen-verbally-commits-to-florida-pending-an-ncaa-waiver-for-a-5th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227107\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Aberdeen verbally commits to Florida; pending an NCAA waiver for a 5th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Currently, the news is out about Denzel Aberdeen leaving Kentucky and returning to Florida. And while this is a game-changer, this is only the beginning of Aberdeen playing in the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Because he is out of eligibility and has to file an NCAA waiver to be approved for his 5th year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">First, the good news. This is a verbal commitment; the Gators and Aberdeen have championship history. As the backup point guard playing his role for the 2024-25 team, leading to Florida\u2019s third national title. Also, he is a veteran coming off a career year who knows Golden\u2019s system and would play along with Boogie Fland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, this is not official yet, and he has to prove that he should have the right to play a fifth year with Florida and finish his career as a Gator. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fortunes favor Aberdeen. He only played 40 minutes as a freshman in 12 games. Per sources, Aberdeen is enrolling at UF for the summer and graduating in August. If approved, he is back in orange and blue officially. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But once we get through the red tape. Then you can happily welcome him back to the O\u2019Connell Center in November. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Currently, the news is out about Denzel Aberdeen leaving Kentucky and returning to Florida.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74876,102284,28,2530,30,29,29867],"class_list":{"0":"post-227107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-denzel-aberdeen","9":"tag-denzel-aberdeen-gators","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-gators","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-gators-mens-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227107","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=227107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}