{"id":319019,"date":"2026-06-25T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/319019\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T04:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:42:11","slug":"magic-trade-pick-select-usfs-nelson-in-2nd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/319019\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic trade pick, select USF’s Nelson in 2nd Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Wizards moved up in the second round to draft Tennessee forward Felix Okpara on Wednesday night, one night after making BYU forward AJ Dybantsa<\/a> the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.<\/p>\n

The Wizards began the night with two second-round picks before acquiring the No. 46 pick from Orlando to add size with Okpara (6-11, 242).<\/p>\n

Southeast Division teams made news in a busy week leading up to the draft.<\/p>\n

The Miami Heat claimed the biggest headline of the offseason when they acquired star Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> from the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night in exchange for a massive haul of players and draft picks.<\/p>\n

Miami traded with Oklahoma City to move up in the second round from No. 41 to No. 37 where it selected Louisville guard Ryan Conwell.<\/p>\n

Washington agreed to a four-year contract extension<\/a> with point guard Trae Young on Monday. The Atlanta Hawks on Monday agreed to acquire wing Aaron Wiggins<\/a> from the Oklahoma City Thunder for second-round draft picks in 2030 and 2032. The Hawks also gave guard C.J. McCollum a one-year, $21 million extension.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Orlando Magic entered the draft without a first-round pick but with a new coach, Sean Sweeney<\/a>, who was introduced on Thursday. The Magic sent four first-round picks, including this year\u2019s selection, to Memphis in the 2025 trade for Desmond Bane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Orlando selected South Florida forward Izaiyah Nelson (6-8, 219) in the second round, 51st overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards moved up in the second round to draft Tennessee forward Felix Okpara on Wednesday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,141,1239,140,1240,110,19211],"class_list":["post-319019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-professional-basketball","tag-sports","tag-usf-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319019","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=319019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}