{"id":1437,"date":"2011-03-25T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2011-04-07T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T03:20:10","slug":"irving-is-likely-to-turn-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Irving is likely to turn pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a genius to figure out Kyrie Irving isn&#8217;t returning to Duke next season.<\/p>\n<p>ACC players know these questions are coming, and have become smart about them. The standard line is, &#8220;I&#8217;m not thinking about the NBA now&#8221; during the season. Of course, most of the time they are.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth usually comes out soon after the season. And that&#8217;s why Irving, Thursday night, told The News &amp; Observer, \u201cI\u2019m not definitely guaranteeing I\u2019m coming back. I\u2019ll sit down with the coaching staff after the NCAA tournament and go from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Go from there means turn pro. And that&#8217;s going to leave a huge hole for a Duke team that also loses Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a genius to figure out Kyrie Irving isn&#8217;t returning to Duke next season. ACC players know these questions are coming,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}