{"id":757830,"date":"2026-06-24T20:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757830\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:13:14","slug":"how-to-watch-the-second-round-of-the-2026-nba-draft-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757830\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the second round of the 2026 NBA draft \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Start:\u00a0Wednesday, 6 p.m MDTVenue:\u00a0Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New YorkTV:\u00a0ABC and ESPNStreaming:\u00a0espn.com\/watchRadio: ESPN Radio or Sirius XM channel 86The stakes<\/p>\n

After AJ Dybantsa was selected No. 1 overall by the Washington Wizards<\/a> on Tuesday night, his BYU teammate Richie Saunders is a near-lock<\/a> to be picked in Wednesday\u2019s second round.<\/p>\n

Saunders, who is recovering from a torn ACL he suffered in February, is expected to hear his name called between picks 31 and 45, currently sitting at No. 7 on ESPN\u2019s list of best available prospects.<\/p>\n

Should Saunders indeed be drafted Wednesday, it will mark the first time BYU has ever had two players chosen in the first two rounds of an NBA draft (BYU has had multiple players selected within the first 60 picks of a draft in both 1982 and 1966, although none of those players were first rounders).<\/p>\n

The Utah Jazz do not currently possess any 2026 second-round picks.<\/p>\n

Pre-draft prepFirst round recap\"\"AJ Dybantsa, right, poses for a photo with NBA commissioner Adam Silver, left, after being selected by the Washington Wizards as the first pick in the first round of the NBA basketball draft, Tuesday, June 23, 2026, in New York. | AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Start:\u00a0Wednesday, 6 p.m MDTVenue:\u00a0Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New YorkTV:\u00a0ABC and ESPNStreaming:\u00a0espn.com\/watchRadio: ESPN Radio or Sirius XM channel 86The stakes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,5872,85],"class_list":["post-757830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-news-feed-local","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757830","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=757830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}