here<\/a> at the G League’s official website.<\/p>\nThe G League draft has existed since the inception of the G League (originally known as the NBA Development League) in 2001.<\/p>\n
Sochan follows in the footsteps of several notable players who went No. 1 overall in the G League draft over the years.<\/p>\n
Among the players who made an impact in the NBA either before or after going first overall in the G League draft are Chris Andersen, Jamaal Tinsley, Robert Covington and current Cleveland Cavaliers sharpshooter Sam Merrill.<\/p>\n
The G League has become a proven path to the NBA, and Sochan has a chance to get back there with a strong performance for the Legends during the upcoming season after hearing his name called first on Saturday.<\/p>\n
G League action is set to begin Nov. 6 when the 2026-27 season officially tips off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Legends selected forward Jeremy Sochan with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NBA G…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-939543","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\/939543","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=939543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}