{"id":756356,"date":"2026-06-24T03:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756356\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T03:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:03:15","slug":"nba-draft-2026-live-updates-track-every-first-round-pick-as-aj-dybantsa-goes-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756356\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA draft 2026 live updates: Track every first round pick as AJ Dybantsa goes No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"rt\">This has been a relatively strong decade for No. 1 picks in the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"rw\">In 2020, the Timberwolves selected Anthony Edwards first, and he\u2019s since led the team to multiple conference finals appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"rz\">In 2021, the Pistons selected Cade Cunningham, who was an All-NBA First Team selection in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"s2\">In 2022, the Magic selected Paolo Banchero, who earned an All-Star bid in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"s5\">In 2023, the Spurs selected Victor Wembanyama, who just made the Finals in his third season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"s8\">In 2025, the Mavericks selected Cooper Flagg, who won Rookie of the Year honors this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"sb\">The only pick lacking in accomplishments so far is Zaccharie Risacher, whom the Hawks took first in 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This has been a relatively strong decade for No. 1 picks in the NBA Draft. In 2020, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-756356","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\/756356","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=756356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}