{"id":898693,"date":"2026-10-29T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898693\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:52:08","slug":"aj-dybantsa-is-flashing-promise-but-the-wizards-still-have-problems-to-solve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898693\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa is flashing promise, but the Wizards still have problems to solve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Y32WUDLYOBHO3PPEJS4T53ZBPE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It didn\u2019t take long for the Washington Wizards\u2019 most anticipated draft pick in over a decade to flex his abilities.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BOSUG3SUWFBERLFPOOTM2ERVWU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">AJ Dybantsa, Washington\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/06\/23\/wizards-select-byu-star-aj-dybantsa-with-top-pick-nba-draft\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/06\/23\/wizards-select-byu-star-aj-dybantsa-with-top-pick-nba-draft\/\">No. 1 overall selection<\/a> since John Wall in 2010, attacked the basket on the first possession against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday and reached the free throw line \u2014 something the BYU product did more than any other college player last season. He converted both foul shots for the first points of his NBA career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It didn\u2019t take long for the Washington Wizards\u2019 most anticipated draft pick in over a decade to flex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-898693","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\/898693","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=898693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}