{"id":347947,"date":"2026-06-24T02:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:52:18","slug":"university-of-houston-point-guard-kingston-flemings-selected-no-8-by-hawks-in-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347947\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Houston point guard Kingston Flemings selected No.8 by Hawks in 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BROOKLYN, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; Welcome to the NBA, Kingston Flemings!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 6-foot-3 point guard was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the eighth overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft on Tuesday night. The second-team All-American looks to contribute to the Hawks right away in the second unit with his high-level speed, playmaking, and scoring ability. Atlanta is led by All-Star forward Jalen Johnson as well as veterans including Nickeil Alexander-Walker and C.J. McCollum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Flemings averaged 16.1 points, 5.2 assists, and 4.1 rebounds with the Houston Cougars for the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">You can watch coverage of Day 1 of the 2026 NBA Draft live on ABC13. Day 2 of the NBA Draft will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday on ABC13&#8217;s sister network, ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For the latest breaking news, weather, and traffic, ABC13 is now LIVE on Disney+! Always on, always under the live tab on Disney+ and everywhere you stream.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Welcome to the NBA, Kingston Flemings! The 6-foot-3 point guard was selected by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124172,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-347947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-124172","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347947","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=347947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}