{"id":757368,"date":"2026-06-24T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:42:09","slug":"toronto-raptors-select-forward-allen-graves-19th-overall-in-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757368\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors select forward Allen Graves 19th overall in NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782276129_574_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Allen Graves arrives for the first round of the NBA basketball draft Tuesday, June 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Adam Hunger)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 23, 2026 | 8:22 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BROOKLYN \u2014 Allen Graves is the newest member of the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto selected Graves 19th overall in the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Graves averaged 11.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game for the Santa Clara Broncos last season.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-eight forward also had 1.9 steals and 0.9 blocks per game in his freshman season at Santa Clara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen Graves arrives for the first round of the NBA basketball draft Tuesday, June 23, 2026, in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-757368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}