{"id":82781,"date":"2025-08-14T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/82781\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:05:09","slug":"andrija-jelavic-set-to-join-kentucky-basketball-team-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/82781\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrija Jelavic set to join Kentucky Basketball team this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot-11 Jelavic will come to Kentucky as a 21-year-old international forward with plenty of professional experience, most recently playing for Mega Superbet in the Adriatic League. He averaged 11 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 1.0 steals per game this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He also played at the 2022 U18 Euro Championships for Croatia, where he averaged 11.3 points, 11.0 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Looking ahead, Jelavic will bring some much-needed depth to a Kentucky frontcourt that\u2019s still waiting on Jayden Quaintance to fully recover from ACL surgery and for Brandon Garrison to take the next step in his development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 6-foot-11 Jelavic will come to Kentucky as a 21-year-old international forward with plenty of professional experience, most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,575,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-82781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82781","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=82781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}