{"id":347920,"date":"2026-06-24T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347920\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:30:12","slug":"dailyn-swain-texas-basketball-star-goes-to-chicago-bulls-at-no-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347920\/","title":{"rendered":"Dailyn Swain: Texas basketball star goes to Chicago Bulls at No. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls\u00a0selected former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/mens-basketball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas basketball<\/a> star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-basketball-dailyn-swain-nba-draft-22280391.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dailyn Swain<\/a> Tuesday with the 15th\u00a0overall pick in the first\u00a0round of the 2026 NBA Draft. The 6-foot-6 wing becomes the second consecutive Longhorn and the 21st player in program history to get selected in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Swain made the most of his one season at Texas after transferring into the program following two years at Xavier. The All-SEC pick averaged career-highs with 17.3 points and 7.5 rebounds while helping the Longhorns reach the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-longhorns-score-today-purdue-basketball-22091789.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament<\/a> behind first-year coach Sean Miller, who also coached Swain at Xavier.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2000, Texas has produced 10 lottery picks and 17 first-round selections. Those 10 lottery picks include LaMarcus Aldridge (No. 2 pick in 2006), Kevin Durant (No. 2 pick in 2007), Tristan Thompson (No. 4 pick in 2011), Tre Johnson (No. 6 pick in 2025), Mohamed Bamba (No. 6 pick in 2018), Chris Mihm (No. 7 pick in 2000), T.J. Ford (No. 8 pick in 2003), Jaxson Hayes (No. 8 pick in 2019), D.J. Augustin (No. 9 pick in 2008) and Myles Turner (No. 11 pick in 2015). Only six collegiate programs \u2013 Duke (25), Kentucky (24), Kansas (16), UConn (14), Arizona (12) and North Carolina (12) \u2013 have produced more lottery picks that Texas this century.<\/p>\n<p>Since the\u00a0NBA draft began in 1947, a total of 51 Longhorns have now been drafted. The Longhorns have had 20 players drafted in the last 21 NBA drafts, dating back to the 2006 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls\u00a0selected former Texas basketball star\u00a0Dailyn Swain Tuesday with the 15th\u00a0overall pick in the first\u00a0round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41452,26669,27,29,537,19751,28],"class_list":["post-347920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dailyn-swain","tag-nba-draft","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347920","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=347920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}