{"id":30941,"date":"2025-06-11T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-belfast-basketball-star-cj-fulton-invited-to-minnesota-timberwolves-pre-draft-workout\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:56:04","slug":"nba-belfast-basketball-star-cj-fulton-invited-to-minnesota-timberwolves-pre-draft-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-belfast-basketball-star-cj-fulton-invited-to-minnesota-timberwolves-pre-draft-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Belfast basketball star CJ Fulton invited to Minnesota Timberwolves pre-draft workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The son of former Ireland international Adrian Fulton, CJ formerly played for St Malachy&#8217;s College and Belfast Star, helping the latter win the Basketball Ireland Super League title for the first time in 21 years in 2020. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moved to the Winchendon School in Boston before securing a collegiate scholarship with Pennsylvania-based Lafayette University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a move to Charleston Cougars, he made his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/68618968\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">debut in college basketball&#8217;s &#8216;March Madness&#8217; tournament in 2024<\/a> after helping his side win the CAA Conference Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Minnesota Timberwolves have reached the NBA&#8217;s Western Conference finals in each of the past two seasons, losing the best-of-seven series to the Dallas Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Timberwolves roster includes three-time All-Star guard Anthony Edwards, the NBA&#8217;s number one draft pick in 2020. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cj6r06k9lxpo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of former Ireland international Adrian Fulton, CJ formerly played for St Malachy&#8217;s College and Belfast Star, helping the latter win the Basketball Ireland Super League title for the first time in 21 years in 2020. He moved to the Winchendon School in Boston before securing a collegiate scholarship with Pennsylvania-based Lafayette University. Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30943,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30941\/revisions\/30943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}