{"id":602651,"date":"2026-04-24T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:59:11","slug":"tennessee-forward-nate-ament-declares-for-the-nba-draft-after-1-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602651\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee forward Nate Ament declares for the NBA draft after 1 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Tennessee forward Nate Ament declared Thursday that he&#8217;s heading to the NBA draft after one season in college.<\/p>\n<p>Ament helped the Volunteers go 25-12 and to a No. 12 ranking in the final AP Top 25 poll with a third straight Elite Eight berth in the NCAA Tournament. The 6-foot-10, 207-pound Ament started all 35 games he played, and he ranked second in scoring 16.7 points a game. He averaged 6.3 rebounds per game, as well.<\/p>\n<p>He announced his intentions in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXfhFT1EeFw\/?igsh=MWtqM2tiNDJ0ZzZvdg==\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram post,<\/a> saying the support from his Vol family is a huge reason why he has this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promise to always represent the Vols with the upmost pride,\u201d Ament wrote. \u201cThis University means more to me than just basketball \u2014 to me it&#8217;s a place I call home. I might&#8217;ve only been here a year but I&#8217;ll remember this year for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said earlier Thursday that Ament was so special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly when he goes through this process that any and every team he sits down in front of they&#8217;re going to see the same things that we see,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cThere&#8217;s so much more to him than what you see on the court. Basketball-wise right now I mean there&#8217;s no ceiling for him. He hasn&#8217;t even really scratched the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Tennessee forward Nate Ament declared Thursday that he&#8217;s heading to the NBA draft after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[241620,355,74976,74973,74975,17961,99,2219,262142],"class_list":{"0":"post-602651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nate-ament","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","11":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","12":"tag-product-40814-ap-tennessee-sports-only","13":"tag-rick-barnes","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennessee","16":"tag-tennessee-nate-ament-nba-draft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}