{"id":1892882,"date":"2026-07-23T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892882"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:53:55","slug":"gainey-says-paul-mcneil-jr-has-been-amazing-and-has-stepped-into-a-leadership-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892882","title":{"rendered":"Gainey says Paul McNeil Jr. has been \u2018amazing\u2019 and has stepped into a leadership role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest hauls of the portal season for NC State basketball wasn&#8217;t a new coach, Justin Gainey, landing a highly-ranked transfer. It was bringing back Paul McNeil Jr, the rising junior who broke out and became one of the most coveted players in college basketball this offseason. In his sophomore campaign, P2, as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/23\/gainey-says-paul-mcneil-jr-has-been-amazing-and-has-stepped-into-a-leadership-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest hauls of the portal season for NC State basketball wasn&#8217;t a new coach, Justin Gainey, landing a highly-ranked transfer. It was bringing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892882","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892883,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892882\/revisions\/1892883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}