{"id":266952,"date":"2026-06-15T02:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266952\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:12:20","slug":"ku-alum-kevin-mccullar-jr-wins-nba-finals-with-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266952\/","title":{"rendered":"KU alum Kevin McCullar Jr. wins NBA Finals with New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (WIBW) &#8211; Former Kansas guard Kevin McCullar Jr. became the 17th player in school history to win an NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCullar Jr. started 59 games for the Jayhawks in 2 seasons from 2022-24. He began his career at Texas Tech. McCullar was a 2nd round pick in the 2024 NBA Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCullar Jr. was acquired by the New York Knicks around mid-season. He averaged 2.4 points on 42.6% shooting in the 2025-26 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCullar Jr. did not appear in any games during the playoffs. The Knicks clinched their first NBA title in over 50 years last night with a win against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (WIBW) &#8211; Former Kansas guard Kevin McCullar Jr. became the 17th player in school history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77433,103220,70175,103222,103221,103034,99098,10663,103219,100245,37011,9,11,1104,10,38290],"class_list":["post-266952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-13-sports","tag-kansas-hoops","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kansas-jayhawks-basketball","tag-kansas-mbb","tag-kevin-mccullar","tag-kevin-mccullar-jr","tag-knicks","tag-ku-hoops","tag-nba-champions","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-wibw-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}