{"id":758818,"date":"2026-06-25T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758818\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:48:17","slug":"hawks-clippers-exchange-second-round-picks-at-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758818\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks, Clippers exchange Second-Round picks at 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2249372\" class=\"wp-image-2249372 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2267461462-scaled-e1782353063677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1442\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2249372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Carolina center Henri Veesaar, selected by the Clippers, is reported on the move to Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>As the Hawks work to firm up their roster in the wake of the deadline deal that sent franchise mainstay Trae Young to Washington, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/hawks\/news\/atlanta-hawks-acquire-the-draft-rights-to-henri-veesaar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made a swap<\/a> in the Second Round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\/draft\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Draft<\/a>, picking up North Carolina center Henri Veesaar in a deal with the LA Clippers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782370096_85_logo.png\" alt=\"Atlanta Hawks logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Hawks receive:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782370097_844_logo.png\" alt=\"Los Angeles Clippers logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Clippers receive:<\/p>\n<p>No. 57 overall (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/draft\/2026\/prospects\/narcisse-ngoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Narcisse Ngoy<\/a>) via ATL<br \/>\nCash considerations via ATL<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Atlanta, Henri! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8qcBLeyBHJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8qcBLeyBHJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/2069983021462135001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Atlanta traded No. 57 and cash to the Clippers for No. 52, leapfrogging the Lakers at No. 56, who a lot of teams thought were targeting Henri Veesaar as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fOwsFIu6iM\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/fOwsFIu6iM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JakeLFischer\/status\/2069962527874629745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBA.com will have more on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Carolina center Henri Veesaar, selected by the Clippers, is reported on the move to Atlanta. As the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,362705,85],"class_list":["post-758818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-hawks-clippers-draft-trade","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758818","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=758818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}