{"id":282074,"date":"2026-04-23T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282074\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:17:10","slug":"sacramento-kings-mock-draft-roundup-latest-projections-following-the-coin-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282074\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings Mock Draft Roundup: Latest Projections Following the Coin Flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, the Sacramento Kings lost the coin flip with the Utah Jazz, putting them in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kingsherald.com\/draft-news\/kings-draft-odds-set-after-losing-tiebreaker-coin-toss-with-utah-jazz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5th spot in the Draft Lottery<\/a>. The Kings now have the highest chance (25.5%) of getting the seventh pick, and an 11.5% chance at the first pick. They are guaranteed a top nine pick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember back when Sacramento had the worst record and were on their way to a guaranteed top 5 pick?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, let\u2019s take a look at some of the latest NBA mock drafts and who they have the Kings selecting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/article\/nba-mock-draft-30-darryn-peterson-to-the-thunder-heres-what-happens-if-the-lottery-brings-us-chaos-152543424.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Sports<\/a> \u2013 Cameron Boozer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.kingsherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Product Banner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Product-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1182\" height=\"330\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kings select Cameron Boozer with the third overall pick. The Kings taking Boozer would be interesting in terms of not only potential, but also what that means for a fit next to Domantas Sabonis. Both are somewhat similar players, but there is the idea constantly floating out there that Sabonis would be shopped again later next season regardless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25262746-2026-nba-mock-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bleacher Report<\/a> \u2013 Darius Acuff Jr. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kings select Darius Acuff Jr. with the fifth overall pick. Sacramento drops to 5th here, which at this point is good considering they could slide as low as ninth given the lottery odds. Yay for wins this season! Acuff raised a lot of eyebrows during the final few months of the college basketball season. He finished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5142620\/darius-acuff-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">averaging<\/a> 23.5 points, 6.4 assists and 3.1 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbadraft.net\/2026-nba-extended-mock-draft-6-0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBADraft.Net<\/a> \u2013 Caleb Wilson<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kings select Caleb Wilson with the fifth overall pick. Another prediction with the Kings getting No. 5. Wilson is a tad of an unknown given he was injured for the later part of the college season, but his standing in the top 5 of mock drafts has remained consistent given his athletic and scoring abilities. Shooting is a concern, but the upside is certainly there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least they didn\u2019t slip out of the top 5 in any of these selections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NBA Lottery is scheduled for May 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, the Sacramento Kings lost the coin flip with the Utah Jazz, putting them in the 5th spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[56044,97048,47705,7003,77239,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-282074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-caleb-wilson","9":"tag-cameron-boozer","10":"tag-darius-acuff","11":"tag-domantas-sabonis","12":"tag-nba-draft","13":"tag-sacramento","14":"tag-sacramento-headlines","15":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}