{"id":435421,"date":"2024-11-14T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435421"},"modified":"2024-11-14T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:53:29","slug":"jared-mccain-reluctantly-pays-up-on-kentucky-duke-bet-with-justin-edwards","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/sports\/jared-mccain-reluctantly-pays-up-on-kentucky-duke-bet-with-justin-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared McCain reluctantly pays up on Kentucky-Duke bet with Justin Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, Jared McCain had the best game of his young NBA career as he scored 34 points and had 10 assists in the Philadelphia 76ers 114-106 loss to the 13-0 Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>He was drafted with the 16th pick in the 2024 NBA Draft after playing one season at Duke.<\/p>\n<p>Before his big performance against the Cavaliers, McCain had to pay up on a bet with teammate and former Kentucky Wildcat Justin Edwards after their former schools played on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">that blue blood rivalry runs deep.<\/p>\n<p>cc: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jedwards3_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jedwards3_<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_mccain_24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@J_mccain_24<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZzogFLPdOO\">pic.twitter.com\/ZzogFLPdOO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers\/status\/1856848217046225296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky and Duke played in the Champions Classic, with the Wildcats winning the game 77-72. The Blue Devils were up 46-37 at the half, but the Wildcats outscored them 40-26 to pull away for the win.<\/p>\n<p>During his lone season in Durham last year, McCain averaged 14.3 PPG and 5.0 RPG while shooting 41.4% on 3s.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers are off to one of the most disappointing starts in the NBA, as they are now 2-9 on the season. The team had major expectations entering this season, as Paul George joined Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid to form arguably the best trio in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>However, those 3 players are yet to play in the same game this year, with Embiid&#8217;s game on Monday night being his first game of the year. These injuries have forced McCain to step into more of a scoring role, and his 13.5 PPG are most for any rookie in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared McCain played his collegiate career at Duke, and he had to pay up on a bet after his Blue Devils lost to Kentucky on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398109,"featured_media":435422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435421","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","series_tags-hoops","teams-duke-blue-devils"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}