{"id":318908,"date":"2026-06-25T02:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318908\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:22:27","slug":"felix-okpara-drafted-by-orlando-magic-traded-to-washington-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318908\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Okpara drafted by Orlando Magic, traded to Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; Tennessee forward Felix Okpara has been drafted 46th overall in the 2026 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic and then traded to the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Okpara spent two seasons in Knoxville after transferring in from Ohio State, starting 72 games for the Volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In his first season at Tennessee, Okpara started every contest during Tennessee\u2019s run to the 2025 Elite 8. He averaged 7.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game during the 2024-25 campaign. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/page\/wvlt-news-and-weather-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"wvlt\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/EAFJZDKWSJFMFGBA5C5FOEW7NM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Okpara\u2019s final college season was his best. The Lagos, Nigeria native earned SEC All-Defensive team honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Okpara\u2019s 1.59 blocks per game rank second on the Tennessee program career leaderboard. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WVLT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; Tennessee forward Felix Okpara has been drafted 46th overall in the 2026 NBA Draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-318908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}