{"id":1939541,"date":"2026-10-22T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939541"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:42:22","slug":"tar-heels-in-nba-wilson-shows-flashes-hits-16-but-goes-through-struggles-in-bulls-blowout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939541","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels in NBA: Wilson shows flashes, hits 16 but goes through struggles in Bulls\u2019 blowout loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb Wilson\u2019s NBA regular-season debut reminded everyone that the transition from college basketball to the pros won\u2019t always be smooth, even for a rookie with his considerable talent. The former Carolina star scored 16 points, missed seven of eight 3-point attempts and finished with a team-worst -45 in Chicago\u2019s 135\u201392 loss Wednesday at Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/22\/tar-heels-in-nba-wilson-shows-flashes-hits-16-but-goes-through-struggles-in-bulls-blowout-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb Wilson\u2019s NBA regular-season debut reminded everyone that the transition from college basketball to the pros won\u2019t always be smooth, even for a rookie with his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1939542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tarheeltribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tar-Heels-NBA-Update-Graphic.png?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939541","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939543,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939541\/revisions\/1939543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}