{"id":1942606,"date":"2026-11-08T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1942606"},"modified":"2026-11-08T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:42:33","slug":"i-never-lost-confidence-in-him-kyle-evans-is-turning-the-corner-justin-gainey-and-his-staff-saw-it-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1942606","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI never lost confidence in him.\u201d Kyle Evans Is Turning the Corner. Justin Gainey and His Staff Saw It Coming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re honest, for about three weeks, the conversation around NC State&#8217;s new center, Kyle Evans, had a skeptical edge to it. He came to Raleigh from UC Irvine with a big reputation: the nation&#8217;s top shot blocker, a big who could play above the rim on both ends, and a piece the new staff [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/11\/08\/kyle-evans-is-turning-the-corner-justin-gainey-and-his-staff-saw-it-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re honest, for about three weeks, the conversation around NC State&#8217;s new center, Kyle Evans, had a skeptical edge to it. He came to Raleigh&#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-1942606","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\/1942606","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=1942606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942607,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942606\/revisions\/1942607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}