{"id":372534,"date":"2026-06-24T04:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372534\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T04:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:42:12","slug":"reports-kings-trade-back-into-first-round-at-no-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372534\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Kings trade back into first round at No. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2248213\" class=\"wp-image-2248213 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Alex_Karaban_1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2248213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A two-time NCAA champion at UConn, Alex Karaban is reportedly headed to the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours after selecting Darius Acuff Jr. at No. 7 overall in the First Round at Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\/draft\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Draft<\/a>, the Sacramento Kings opted to trade back up and add another player, reportedly acquiring the No. 29 pick via the Cleveland Cavaliers for No. 34 overall and a future second-round selection.<\/p>\n<p>Kings receive:<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers receive:<\/p>\n<p>No. 34 overall (via Sacramento)<br \/>\nFuture Second-Round pick<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: Cleveland is trading No. 29 to Sacramento for No. 34 and a future second-rounder. The Kings are interested in UConn&#8217;s Alex Karaban at 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2069621857515360416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBA.com will have more on this story as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-time NCAA champion at UConn, Alex Karaban is reportedly headed to the Sacramento Kings. A few hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[150886,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-372534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-cavalier-kings-trade","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372534","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=372534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}