{"id":724302,"date":"2026-06-25T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:48:08","slug":"nuggets-add-bryce-hopkins-with-49th-pick-in-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724302\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets add Bryce Hopkins with 49th pick in 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; The Nuggets add another forward with their second pick, 49, in the 2026 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">St. John\u2019s Bryce Hopkins is a 2X All Big East selection. Last season he averaged 13.6 PPG shooting 47% from the field and tallied 6.2 boards a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hopkins does have injuries in his past &#8211; dealing with multiple leg injuries but he may be on the other side as he played in every game for the Red Storm last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Described as a versatile forward that plays hard and with tons of energy. Plus, a solid offensive rebounder and personal defender.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; The Nuggets add another forward with their second pick, 49, in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[245237,102534,355,3789,261292,261293,99,117457],"class_list":["post-724302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-elite-eight","tag-march-madness","tag-nba","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-regional-championship","tag-regional-semifinal","tag-sports","tag-sweet-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724302","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=724302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}