{"id":241020,"date":"2025-10-26T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:30:07","slug":"stockton-kings-draft-jabri-abdur-rahim-son-of-g-league-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241020\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockton Kings draft Jabri Abdur-Rahim, son of G League president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKTON, Calif. &#8212; Shareef Abdur-Rahim is president of the G League. One of the league&#8217;s newest players refers to him a bit differently.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning G League champion Stockton Kings drafted Jabri Abdur-Rahim &#8212; Shareef&#8217;s son &#8212; on Saturday, taking him with the 29th pick in the first round. Jabri Abdur-Rahim played with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> in NBA Summer League.<\/p>\n<p>Jabri Abdur-Rahim spent his final college season at Providence, after three years at Georgia and his first year at Virginia. The 6-foot-7 guard averaged 7.9 points in 123 college games.<\/p>\n<p>Shareef Abdur-Rahim was an Olympic gold medalist in 2000 and an NBA All-Star in 2002. He scored just over 15,000 points in 12 seasons, averaging 18.1 points per game, and has been president of the G League since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Weber State&#8217;s Dillon Jones was the No. 1 pick in Saturday&#8217;s draft, going to the South Bay Lakers. Temple&#8217;s Jamal Mashburn Jr. &#8212; the son of former NBA All-Star Jamal Mashburn &#8212; was taken with the No. 8 pick by the Westchester Knicks and then traded to the Grand Rapids Gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKTON, Calif. &#8212; Shareef Abdur-Rahim is president of the G League. One of the league&#8217;s newest players refers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-241020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}