{"id":1770783,"date":"2022-10-26T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1770783"},"modified":"2022-10-26T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:47:43","slug":"terquavion-smith-explains-the-real-reason-why-he-turned-down-the-nba-to-return-to-nc-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1770783","title":{"rendered":"Terquavion Smith explains the real reason why he turned down the NBA to return to NC State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/terquavion-smith-explains-the-real-reason-why-he-turned-down-the-nba-to-return-to-nc-state\/20539358\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2022\/02\/05\/20119146\/2022NCSUBBvND-3-DMID1-5wp4wdxks-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NC State drops to Notre Dame, 69-57\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After averaging 16.3 points per game as a freshman, many fans thought Terquavion Smith would be the first to leave NC State for the NBA, but instead, he chose to come back to a last-place team. In an interview with WRAL, Smith explained why. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/terquavion-smith-explains-the-real-reason-why-he-turned-down-the-nba-to-return-to-nc-state\/20539358\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/terquavion-smith-explains-the-real-reason-why-he-turned-down-the-nba-to-return-to-nc-state\/20539358\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Terquavion Smith explains the real reason why he turned down the NBA to return to NC State\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After averaging 16.3 points per game as a freshman, many fans thought Terquavion Smith would be the first to leave NC State for the NBA,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770783","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1770783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1770783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1770783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1770783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}