{"id":759327,"date":"2026-06-25T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759327\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:23:10","slug":"grading-every-teams-2026-nba-draft-and-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759327\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading Every Team&#8217;s 2026 NBA Draft and Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Cleveland Cavaliers certainly didn&#8217;t need another undersized wing with Max Strus, Sam Merrill, Jaylon Tyson, Tyrese Proctor and Keon Ellis (free agent) in the mix, although Thomas was probably the best player on the board at No. 34 overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Cavs <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/2069638575637889111\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">did save $2.9 million<\/a> in projected salary by trading back into the second round and picked up a future second from Sacramento, an important addition as Cleveland had previously parted with all of its future seconds at the 2026 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Thomas was projected to go No. 24 overall by B\/R&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25262746-2026-nba-mock-draft\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Wasserman<\/a> in his final mock, as the 6&#8217;5&#8243; guard shot 45.0 percent from three over his final 19 games at Arkansas after joining the starting lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers certainly didn&#8217;t need another undersized wing with Max Strus, Sam Merrill, Jaylon Tyson, Tyrese Proctor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-759327","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\/759327","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=759327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}