{"id":278914,"date":"2026-05-21T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:28:11","slug":"nba-champion-marreese-speights-jokingly-commits-to-florida-in-trending-post-amid-new-rules-in-cbb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278914\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Champion Marreese Speights Jokingly Commits to Florida in Trending Post amid &#8216;New Rules&#8217; in CBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With a number of professional basketball players returning to the collegiate level, Marreese Speights has decided to go back to school. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The NBA champ, who is now retired, jokingly committed to Florida on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Speights spent two seasons with the Gators, winning a national championship in 2007. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">During the 2025-26 season, a handful of players who had been drafted to the NBA returned to college basketball, despite some having professional experience either overseas or in the G League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The latest is RJ Luis, who reportedly <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25429335-rj-luis-reportedly-returning-cbb-signed-2-way-contract-jazz-after-2025-nba-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">signed<\/a> with LSU on Tuesday. Luis, who spent one year at UMass and two years at St. John&#8217;s, went undrafted in June before signing a two-way contract with the Utah Jazz. He later joined the Boston Celtics&#8217; G League team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Luis is currently ineligible to play college basketball but will &#8220;likely file a lawsuit&#8221; to gain eligibility, according to On3&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteNakos\/status\/2056735783575224802?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Pete Nakos<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a number of professional basketball players returning to the collegiate level, Marreese Speights has decided to go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-278914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278914","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=278914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}