{"id":329172,"date":"2026-07-04T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:40:20","slug":"former-a-state-forward-izaiyah-nelson-signs-with-orlando-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329172\/","title":{"rendered":"Former A-State forward Izaiyah Nelson signs with Orlando Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) -Former Arkansas State forward Izaiyah Nelson signed a two-way contract with the Orlando Magic after being selected in the second round of the 2026 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the 2025 season with the Red Wolves, Nelson earned Third Team All-Sun Belt Conference and Sun Belt Conference All-Tournament honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nelson ranked fourth in the Sun Belt in rebounding, averaging a team-best 8.9 boards per game. He averaged 3.19 offensive rebounds per game, ranking second in the conference and top 30 nationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nelson is set to play in the NBA Summer League, which begins July 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">To report a typo or correction, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kait8.com\/page\/tips\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KAIT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) -Former Arkansas State forward Izaiyah Nelson signed a two-way contract with the Orlando Magic after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[135959,3108,64768,5804,2295,139,141,140,135960],"class_list":["post-329172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-a-state","tag-basketball","tag-izaiyah-nelson","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-red-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329172","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=329172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}