{"id":276198,"date":"2026-06-24T04:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T04:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:30:25","slug":"joshua-jefferson-traded-to-the-brooklyn-nets-selected-with-the-28th-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276198\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Jefferson traded to the Brooklyn Nets, selected with the 28th pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK CITY (KCRG) &#8211; Former Iowa State All-American Joshua Jefferson is headed to Brooklyn to play for the Nets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jefferson was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the 28th pick, which was already traded to the Nets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jefferson was named second-team All-American by the AP, averaging 16.4 points, 7.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Originally from Las Vegas, Jefferson played two years at St. Mary\u2019s before transferring the Iowa State. He helped ISU get to two NCAA Tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jefferson injured his ankle in the first round of the 2026 NCAA Tournament, ending his season.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY (KCRG) &#8211; Former Iowa State All-American Joshua Jefferson is headed to Brooklyn to play for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,3361,11496,52388,20011,21,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-276198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-iowa-state","tag-local-sports","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276198","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=276198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}