{"id":3774,"date":"2010-06-24T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2010-06-24T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:05:10","slug":"baylors-udoh-predicted-as-first-round-pick-in-tonights-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/06\/baylors-udoh-predicted-as-first-round-pick-in-tonights-nba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor&#8217;s Udoh predicted as first-round pick in tonight&#8217;s NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"udohdraft-june10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/udohdraft-june10.jpg\" alt=\"Ekpe Udoh\" width=\"225\" height=\"405\" \/>When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/draft2010\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2010 NBA Draft<\/a> begins tonight at 6:30 p.m. CT (live on ESPN), Baylor all-American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/draft2010\/prospects\/ekpe-udoh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ekpe Udoh<\/a> will be among the featured guests at Madison Square Garden for the event. Nearly universally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/sports\/baylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">projected as an early first-round pick<\/a>, Udoh was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/blog\/fullcourtpress.html#greenroom\" target=\"_blank\">one of 15 prospects invited to attend the draft in-person<\/a>. Tune in; Udoh (and Baylor) are likely to be heavily featured on the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>If Udoh is indeed one of the first 30 players selected, a Baylor Bear will have been picked in the first round of each of the three major professional sports leagues in just the last 15 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/04\/bears-smith-the-no-2-overall-pick-in-2009-nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Smith<\/a> was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, followed two months later by <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/06\/miller-selected-by-dodgers-in-mlb-drafts-first-round\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Miller<\/a>, a first-round pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft.<\/p>\n<p>Other top draftees from the past two years include <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/05\/baylor-lineman-the-no-4-overall-pick-in-2010-cfl-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Watkins<\/a> (No. 4 overall pick, 2010 CFL draft), <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/04\/incoming-and-outgoing-lady-bears-honored\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Morrow<\/a> (27th overall pick, 2009 WNBA draft) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/02\/baseball-softball-rake-in-preseason-and-early-season-honors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brette Reagan<\/a> (No. 4 overall pick, 2009 National Pro Fastball Senior Draft).<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Ekpe and all Bears in the pros!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the 2010 NBA Draft begins tonight at 6:30 p.m. CT (live on ESPN), Baylor all-American Ekpe Udoh will be among the featured guests at Madison Square Garden for the event. Nearly universally projected as an early first-round pick, Udoh was one of 15 prospects invited to attend the draft in-person. Tune in; Udoh (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}