{"id":257484,"date":"2026-04-20T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:23:09","slug":"houstons-kingston-flemings-declares-for-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257484\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s Kingston Flemings Declares For 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/kingston-flemings-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-19_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kingston Flemings<\/a> announced Sunday that he\u2019s declaring for the 2026 NBA draft, per Joseph Duarte of The Houston Chronicle (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Joseph_Duarte\/status\/2045951667850432532\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-468152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kingston-Flemings-vert-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\"  \/>Flemings comes in at No. 7 on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/draft\/bestavailable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN\u2019s best available players list<\/a>, making him a probable mid-lottery pick. He earned numerous accolades for his stellar freshman campaign with the Cougars, whose season ended after losing to Illinois in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio native averaged 16.1 points, 5.2 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 37 games (31.7 minutes per contest) for the Cougars in 2025\/26. His shooting slash line was .476\/.387\/.845.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46886245\/2026-nba-draft-big-board-rankings-top-100-prospects-players\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Woo<\/a> praises Flemings\u2019 \u201csize, pace and upside\u201d and calls him a \u201cwinning player\u201d who\u2019s also an \u201cexplosive play-maker.\u201d There are some question marks about the 19-year-old\u2019s outside shot (he only attempted 2.9 threes per game), but Flemings largely had excellent season on team that went 30-7, Woo writes.<\/p>\n<p>This coming Friday, April 24, is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/04\/2026-nba-draft-dates-deadlines-to-watch.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadline<\/a> for early entrants to declare for this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston guard Kingston Flemings announced Sunday that he\u2019s declaring for the 2026 NBA draft, per Joseph Duarte of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,26195],"class_list":{"0":"post-257484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-kingston-flemings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}