{"id":310855,"date":"2026-05-27T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310855\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:13:21","slug":"christian-anderson-gives-update-on-his-nba-draft-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310855\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Anderson gives update on his NBA Draft status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On social media Tuesday, Texas Tech point guard Christian Anderson announced he has officially declared for the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Instagram, his post read:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cLubbock, thank you. From the moment I stepped on campus, Texas Tech felt like home. Coach McCasland and this entire staff believed in me, pushed me, and helped me become the player and person I am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To my teammates and the Red Raider faithful- the love and support you showed me every single night meant everything. The brotherhood we built is something I\u2019ll carry with me forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Anderson averaged 38.3 minutes per game in 33 games last season.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BRAGBCIG6ZDMRHIOUHZVJIGHTY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1343\" \/>Anderson averaged 38.3 minutes per game in 33 games last season.(Instagram)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last season, Anderson averaged 18.5 points and 7.4 assists in 33 games with the Red Raiders. He also carried the greatest workload averaged 38.3 minutes on the court per contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 2026 NBA Draft goes from June 23-24.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On social media Tuesday, Texas Tech point guard Christian Anderson announced he has officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19642,168,170,169,3080,6539,26669,1769,8177,415,873],"class_list":["post-310855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-christian-anderson","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-draft","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-basketball","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310855","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=310855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}