{"id":1939721,"date":"2026-10-23T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939721"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:22:07","slug":"quadir-copeland-starts-the-nba-season-on-the-rockets-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939721","title":{"rendered":"Quadir Copeland Starts the NBA Season on the Rockets Roster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wait is over for NC State basketball fans. Former Wolfpack guard Quadir Copeland has officially made the Houston Rockets&#8217; roster to open the 2026-27 NBA season, becoming the first former NC State player whose final college stop was Raleigh to make an NBA opening-night roster since Dennis Smith Jr. Unlike Smith, who was selected [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/10\/23\/quadir-copeland-houston-rockets-roster-nc-state-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wait is over for NC State basketball fans. Former Wolfpack guard Quadir Copeland has officially made the Houston Rockets&#8217; roster to open the 2026-27 NBA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939721","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\/1939721","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=1939721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939722,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939721\/revisions\/1939722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}