{"id":750161,"date":"2026-06-21T04:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:50:10","slug":"lots-of-the-latest-nba-draft-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750161\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTS of the latest NBA Draft chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!ti2q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0663864b-4d8b-496a-9a89-2551719c78e7_1100x220.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0663864b-4d8b-496a-9a89-2551719c78e7_1100.png\" width=\"1100\" height=\"220\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0663864b-4d8b-496a-9a89-2551719c78e7_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:78412,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/i\/202898352?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0663864b-4d8b-496a-9a89-2551719c78e7_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Father&#8217;s Day used to mark a ceremonial reprieve for front offices throughout the NBA. When both rounds of June&#8217;s annual rookie draft took place on a Thursday, executives around the league had time to spend the holiday with their families and children away from their teams&#8217; respective war rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Not this year.<\/p>\n<p>Not with the two-day draft suddenly positioned on a Tuesday\/Wednesday, avoiding a conflict with the United States men&#8217;s national soccer team&#8217;s final World Cup group game Thursday against T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n<p>And certainly not with the prospect of a Giannis Antetokounmpo trade still looming large over the entire league.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/the-nbas-latest-and-greatest-trade\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/pbs.substack.com\/media\/G_2LfW6WYAAlI57.jpg\"  alt=\"The NBA's latest (and greatest) trade, free agent and draft Intel\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"img-OACg1c smSquare-NGbPBa pencraft pc-reset\"\/>The NBA&#8217;s latest (and greatest) trade, free agent and draft Intel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already spilled plenty of ink this week on the Bucks&#8217; conversations with Miami, Boston and Minnesota. The piece linked right above this paragraph also extensively covers what&#8217;s happening with the top eight selections in Tuesday night&#8217;s Round 1 of the draft. So let&#8217;s begin yet another Late Night dispatch with our latest on the Dallas Mavericks, who hold the No. 9 overall selection, as well as what we&#8217;re hearing about the picks immediately after that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Day used to mark a ceremonial reprieve for front offices throughout the NBA. 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