{"id":33376,"date":"2022-06-02T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/projected-first-round-pick-trevor-keels-leaving-duke-will-keep-name-in-nba-draft-source-says\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:14:25","slug":"projected-first-round-pick-trevor-keels-leaving-duke-will-keep-name-in-nba-draft-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/projected-first-round-pick-trevor-keels-leaving-duke-will-keep-name-in-nba-draft-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected first-round pick Trevor Keels leaving Duke, will keep name in NBA draft, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Trevor Keels is keeping his name in the 2022 NBA draft and will forgo his remaining eligibility at Duke, a source told ESPN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Keels had until 11:59 PM ET to withdraw his name from the NBA draft and retain his eligibility and return to school, which he elected not to do.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-5 Keels is projected as ESPN&#8217;s No. 26 pick in the 2022 draft.  He is one of the youngest players currently projected to be picked at just 18 years old.  Keels was named to the ACC&#8217;s All-Rookie team after a strong freshman season at Duke that included a 25-point outburst in the opening game of the season in the Champions Classic against Kentucky in Madison Square Garden.  He finished strong with a 19-point outing in the NCAA Final Four against North Carolina, the final game of head coach Mike Krzyzewski&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A two-way guard with a strong frame and a 6-7 wingspan, Keels is intriguing to NBA teams due to the combination of toughness, off-court intangibles, feel for the game, defensive versatility and passing creativity he shows.  He showed a sense for the moment in some of Duke&#8217;s biggest games this season, coming to life as a shot-maker and finisher around the basket in several crucial moments despite his youth.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 NBA draft will be held on June 23 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Keels is keeping his name in the 2022 NBA draft and will forgo his remaining eligibility at Duke, a source told ESPN on Wednesday. Keels had until 11:59 PM ET to withdraw his name from the NBA draft and retain his eligibility and return to school, which he elected not to do. The 6-foot-5 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/projected-first-round-pick-trevor-keels-leaving-duke-will-keep-name-in-nba-draft-source-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Projected first-round pick Trevor Keels leaving Duke, will keep name in NBA draft, source says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[6170],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0225\/r978957_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}