{"id":372989,"date":"2026-06-24T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372989\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:19:37","slug":"darius-acuff-jr-lands-in-sacramento-drafted-seventh-by-the-kings-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372989\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Acuff Jr. Lands in Sacramento, Drafted Seventh by the Kings &#8211; NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/player-news\/darius-acuff-jr-lands-in-sacramento-drafted-seventh-by-the-kings\/1880758\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" title=\"Permanent Link to Darius Acuff Jr. Lands in Sacramento, Drafted Seventh by the Kings\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Acuff Jr. Lands in Sacramento, Drafted Seventh by the Kings<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"player-news meta meta-post-time\" style=\"display:inline;\">Jun 23, 2026, 8:47 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Kings drafted Arkansas guard Darius Acuff Jr. with the seventh overall selection in the 2026 NBA Draft. The Kings&#8217; front office has been desperately searching for a starting point guard since trading <a class=\"rbPlayer nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/nba\/player\/20001824\/De\" aaron=\"\" data-id=\"20001824\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">De&#8217;Aaron Fox<\/a> to San Antonio, and has found one of the best scorers in this rookie class. While he&#8217;s not the biggest guard (6&#8217;2&#8243;, 186 lbs.), Acuff manipulated defenses en route to 23.5 points and 6.4 assists per game for the Razorbacks. His defensive capabilities are a big question mark, but the 19-year-old will have plenty of opportunities to score and run the Sacramento offense early in his NBA career.&#8211;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/author\/ajball44gmail-com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Ball<\/a><br \/>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/live-2026-nba-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA<\/a>                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Acuff Jr. Lands in Sacramento, Drafted Seventh by the Kings Jun 23, 2026, 8:47 PM ET The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[77239,100869,121,123,122,2722],"class_list":["post-372989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-nba-draft","tag-prospects-rookies","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372989","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=372989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}