{"id":552205,"date":"2017-11-19T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=552205"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:25:27","slug":"johnson-filling-void-left-by-departure-of-dennis-smith-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=552205","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Filling Void Left by Departure of Dennis Smith, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2017\/11\/19\/mens-basketball-johnson-filling-void-left-by-departure-of-dennis-smith-jr.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>NC State sophomore Markell Johnson spent most of last year backing up NBA Draft lottery pick Dennis Smith, Jr., but Wolfpack fans will see him step into the forefront this season. Head coach Kevin Keatts has identified Johnson as an important piece if NC State is to achieve success this season. <a href=\"http:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2017\/11\/19\/mens-basketball-johnson-filling-void-left-by-departure-of-dennis-smith-jr.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2017\/11\/19\/mens-basketball-johnson-filling-void-left-by-departure-of-dennis-smith-jr.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Johnson Filling Void Left by Departure of Dennis Smith, Jr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gopack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State sophomore Markell Johnson spent most of last year backing up NBA Draft lottery pick Dennis Smith, Jr., but Wolfpack fans will see him step&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552205","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=552205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915403,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552205\/revisions\/1915403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}