{"id":596348,"date":"2026-04-09T19:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/596348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:57:15","slug":"who-goes-no-1-in-2025-nba-re-draft-cooper-flagg-or-kon-knueppel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/596348\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Goes No. 1 In 2025 NBA Re-Draft, Cooper Flagg or Kon Knueppel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Original Pick:\u00a0Kasparas Jaku\u010dionis<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Javon Small&#8217;s Original Draft Position:\u00a0No. 48<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Small is poised for a sizable leap in this re-draft. Few players in this entire rookie class can match his combination of volume and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He is one of only five rookies averaging at least 9.0 points and 3.5 assists. Within that group, which also features Flagg, Harper, Edgecombe and Queen, he has the best three-point percentage (43.9), the fewest turnovers (1.4, tied with Harper) and the third-highest field-goal percentage (47.2, trailing only Flagg and Harper).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original Pick:\u00a0Kasparas Jaku\u010dionis Javon Small&#8217;s Original Draft Position:\u00a0No. 48 Small is poised for a sizable leap in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-596348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596348","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=596348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}