Manhattan native Cameron Carr became an NBA first-round draft pick Tuesday night, selected No. 24 overall by the New York Knicks before his draft rights were traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n
The Lakers acquired Carr’s draft rights in exchange for the rights to Spanish guard Sergio De Larrea and cash considerations.<\/p>\n
Prior to hearing his name called, Carr reflected on the opportunity during an interview with NBA TV.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s going to make the little kid in me happy,\u201d Carr said. \u201cIt’s everything I always dreamed of as a kid right there. So I’m excited. It’s going to be a great moment for me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carr is coming off a breakout season at Baylor, where he started all 34 games and averaged 18.9 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.3 blocks per game. He scored 642 points during the 2025-26 season, the fifth-most in program history and a Baylor sophomore record.<\/p>\n
Carr earned All-Big 12 Third Team and Big 12 All-Newcomer Team honors while leading the Bears in points, scoring average, 3-pointers made, free throws made and blocked shots.<\/p>\n
Before transferring to Baylor, Carr spent two seasons at Tennessee. He appeared in 14 games as a freshman during the Volunteers’ run to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 in 2023-24 before an injury limited him to four appearances during the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n
A four-star recruit, Carr attended Manhattan High School for two years while his father, Chris Carr, served as an assistant coach on the Kansas State women’s basketball staff.<\/p>\n
Carr averaged 10.9 points and four rebounds per game as a sophomore for the Indians during the 2020-21 season before transferring to Link Academy in Branson, Missouri.<\/p>\n
At Link Academy, Carr helped the program win a GEICO Nationals championship and finish No. 1 in both the ESPN and MaxPreps national rankings.<\/p>\n
Carr’s basketball roots run deep. His father played six seasons in the NBA from 1995 to 2001, while his sister, Christianna Carr, played collegiately at K-State from 2018 to 2021 before transferring to Syracuse and Arkansas.<\/p>\n
Carr now joins the Lakers organization with superstars LeBron James and Luka Don\u010di\u0107 after becoming a first-round selection in Tuesday night’s NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan native Cameron Carr became an NBA first-round draft pick Tuesday night, selected No. 24 overall by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4567,106366,75,84,83,10784,106367,106368,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-276686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-basketball","tag-draft-sports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-men","tag-nba-seasons","tag-nba-teams","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276686","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=276686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}