{"id":238145,"date":"2026-04-07T03:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238145\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:26:52","slug":"lejuan-watts-entering-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238145\/","title":{"rendered":"LeJuan Watts entering transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After one season with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, LeJuan Watts has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/texas-tech-forward-lejuan-watts-plans-to-enter-transfer-portal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/texas-tech-forward-lejuan-watts-plans-to-enter-transfer-portal\/\">confirmed to On3<\/a> that he will enter the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last season, the sophomore forward- who had transferred from Eastern Washington the previous year, averaged 11.8 points and six rebounds per game and had eight blocked shots throughout the season. During the Red Raiders season-ending loss to Alabama at the NCAA tournament, he was Tech\u2019s lead scorer in that game with 16 points- 12 in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watts joins Leon Horner and Nolan Groves as Red Raiders now exiting. Last week, both announced their intention to transfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After one season with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, LeJuan Watts has confirmed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,2692,14836,168,170,169,29183,8177,415,873,3774],"class_list":{"0":"post-238145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big-12","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-lejuan-watts","11":"tag-lubbock","12":"tag-lubbock-headlines","13":"tag-lubbock-news","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","16":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","17":"tag-texas-tech-university","18":"tag-transfer-portal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}