{"id":213603,"date":"2026-04-29T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:16:10","slug":"st-johns-misses-out-on-top-transfer-center-massamba-diop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213603\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s misses out on top transfer center Massamba Diop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. John\u2019s search for a Zuby Ejiofor replacement continues.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Storm lost out to Gonzaga for top center target Massamba Diop of Arizona State on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Both schools hosted the 7-foot-1 Diop over the previous two weekends, and the Johnnies believed they were in good position to land the freshman standout, but ultimately Diop is staying out west. <\/p>\n<p>They were really the only two schools that had a chance at Diop, once he decided to enter the transfer portal weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s search for a Zuby Ejiofor replacement continues. The Red Storm lost out to Gonzaga for top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3361,76661,9,24,55,54,56,319,428,3363],"class_list":["post-213603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-transfer-portal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}