{"id":508700,"date":"2026-06-24T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508700\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:19:10","slug":"the-pacific-division-adds-high-scoring-guards-in-nba-draft-with-wagler-to-clips-acuff-to-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508700\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pacific Division adds high-scoring guards in NBA draft with Wagler to Clips, Acuff to Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NYYTOSVUSJELBHBREBWVOYQTPY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Pacific Division loaded up on young, talented guards in the top 10 of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA draft<\/a> , with the Los Angeles Clippers taking Keaton Wagler and the Sacramento Kings selecting Darius Acuff Jr.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DDNGU2UN25AS7OYOIEE4R2NY24\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Wagler was the No. 5 pick on Tuesday night, giving the Clippers an all-around player who was part of the country\u2019s loaded freshman class. The 19-year-old is the third Fighting Illini player selected in the top 10 in the modern NBA era, joining Deron Williams (No. 3, 2005) and Kendall Gill (No. 5, 1990).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pacific Division loaded up on young, talented guards in the top 10 of this year\u2019s NBA draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[189989,233663,85,46,189985,46938,233664,131742,189987,131458,189988,189986,105,195401],"class_list":["post-508700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-nba-schedule","tag-bkn-nba-draft-pacific-division","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nba-2026-news","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-highlights","tag-nba-latest-news","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-schedule-2026","tag-nba-scores","tag-sports","tag-sports-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}