{"id":669531,"date":"2026-05-28T05:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669531\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:49:21","slug":"amari-allen-returning-to-alabama-withdraws-name-from-the-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669531\/","title":{"rendered":"Amari Allen returning to Alabama: Withdraws name from the NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama&#8217;s basketball offseason just got a little bit better. <\/p>\n<p>Amari Allen is coming back to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The forward withdrew from the 2026 NBA Draft on Wednesday, which is the withdrawal deadline date. This comes after Allen competed at the NBA Combine in Chicago, participated in a pro day hosted by Priority Sports, his agency, and worked out for numerous teams.<\/p>\n<p>Allen started 24 games for the Tide as a freshman, averaging 11 points, seven rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of other Alabama news regarding the NBA Draft, guard Labaron Philon Jr. is staying in the pool, as he&#8217;s widely expected to be a top-15 selection. Latrell Wrightsell Jr., Houston Mallette and Noah Williamson, each of whom exhausted their collegiate eligibility but weren&#8217;t invited to the NBA or G League Combines, are also hoping to hear their name called between June 23-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama&#8217;s basketball offseason just got a little bit better. Amari Allen is coming back to Alabama. The forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-669531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669531","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=669531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}