{"id":722343,"date":"2026-06-24T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722343\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:56:11","slug":"former-uofl-guard-mikel-brown-jr-selected-no-6-overall-by-brooklyn-nets-in-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722343\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UofL guard Mikel Brown Jr. selected No. 6 overall by Brooklyn Nets in NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) &#8211; Former University of Louisville standout Mikel Brown Jr. was selected No. 6 overall by the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown spent one season with the Cardinals, becoming UofL\u2019s first \u201cone-and-done\u201d player. He appeared in 21 games, averaging 18.2 points and 4.7 assists, earning All-ACC Third Team and All-ACC Rookie Team honors, according to WAVE reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One of his biggest performances came against Kentucky, when he scored 29 points with five assists in a 96-88 win. Brown\u2019s season was also impacted by a back injury, which caused him to miss 14 games, including the ACC Tournament and Louisville\u2019s NCAA Tournament games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The NBA Draft was held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WAVE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) &#8211; Former University of Louisville standout Mikel Brown Jr. was selected No. 6 overall by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,671,58829,355,99,310764,310765],"class_list":["post-722343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-mikel-brown","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-uofl","tag-uofl-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722343","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=722343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}