{"id":619048,"date":"2026-05-02T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619048\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:24:08","slug":"three-zags-among-2026-nba-g-league-combine-invitees-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619048\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Zags among 2026 NBA, G-League Combine invitees | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPOKANE, Wash. &#8211; The Gonzaga Bulldogs remain well-represented at the NBA level, today as prospects rather than stars, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>Incoming Zag Jack Kayil is the lone invitee to the 2026 NBA Draft Combine. He&#8217;s one of 73 players and planned to pursue the NBA avenue when he committed.<\/p>\n<p>Former Zag Graham Ike and incoming Houston transfer Isiah Harwell both received invites to the G-League Combine. Ike is out of collegiate eligibility, while Harwell has three years remaining and is not projected to immediately pursue the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 NBA Draft broke a four-year draft streak for the Zags, but undrafted Ryan Nembhard Jr. broke out this season for the Dallas Mavericks, shattering the franchise record for most assists in a game (23).<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NBA G-League Combine takes place May 8-10, while the NBA Draft Combine goes down from May 10-17. Both events are in Chicago, and the 2026 NBA Draft begins on June 23 in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOKANE, Wash. &#8211; The Gonzaga Bulldogs remain well-represented at the NBA level, today as prospects rather than stars,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[9809,668,8456,355,3,99,41201,452],"class_list":["post-619048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-local-sports","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}