{"id":509626,"date":"2026-06-25T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509626\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:00:10","slug":"report-knicks-open-round-2-of-2026-draft-with-swap-of-no-31-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509626\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Knicks open Round 2 of 2026 Draft with swap of No. 31 overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2248971\" class=\"wp-image-2248971 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2275493295-scaled-e1782346918262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1493\" height=\"845\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2248971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ohio State\u2019s all-time leading scorer, guard Bruce Thornton has been selected by the Knicks, and is reportedly on his way to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks, one of the busiest teams on the opening night of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\/draft\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Draft<\/a>, kicked off the Second Round with another team, this time swapping a pair of picks with the Rockets. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px;width: auto;vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/logo.png\" alt=\"Houston Rockets logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Rockets receive:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px;width: auto;vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782349210_450_logo.png\" alt=\"New York Knicks logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Knicks receive:<\/p>\n<p>No. 39 overall (TBD)<br \/>\nNo. 53 overall (TBD)<br \/>\n2029 Second-Round pick (via Sacramento)<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: The New York Knicks are trading Nos. 31 and 55 to the Houston Rockets for Nos. 39 and 53 and a 2029 Kings second-rounder. The moves begin for night two of the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2069934395033616459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBA.com will have more on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State\u2019s all-time leading scorer, guard Bruce Thornton has been selected by the Knicks, and is reportedly on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,233988,105],"class_list":["post-509626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-knicks-rockets-draft-trade","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509626","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=509626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}