{"id":722197,"date":"2026-06-24T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722197\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:21:12","slug":"charlotte-hornets-set-with-two-first-round-picks-in-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722197\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets set with two first-round picks in 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The Charlotte Hornets only have two picks in the 2026 NBA Draft, but both of them are inside the Top 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hornets are set to make their first selection at No. 14 overall, the draft\u2019s final lottery pick, and their second at No. 18 overall. Charlotte does not have a second-round pick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Head coach Charles Lee and company put together the franchise\u2019s most successful season in a decade in 2025-26, despite coming up one win short of the the team\u2019s first playoff appearance since 2015-16. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2025, Charlotte drafted Kon Knueppel at No. 4 overall from Duke, Liam McNeely from Connecticut at No. 29 overall via a trade with Phoenix, Sion James at No. 33 overall from Duke and Ryan Kalkbrenner at No. 4 overall from Creighton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two-day 2026 NBA Draft starts at 8 p.m. EST at the Barclays Center in New York. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The Charlotte Hornets only have two picks in the 2026 NBA Draft, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-722197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722197","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=722197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}