{"id":724513,"date":"2026-06-25T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724513\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:12:11","slug":"wizards-select-tennessee-forward-in-second-round-after-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724513\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards select Tennessee forward in second round after trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PL5VOYKQSBEZ3GUT2ESR3DPNXM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">After the first round of the NBA draft Tuesday night, Washington Wizards General Manager Will Dawkins recuperated. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7SLWQ2KLWRHCVFT3RS3FQIUUPA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The night before, he was awake at 3 a.m., poring through years of notes, desperate for assurance that selecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/06\/23\/wizards-select-byu-star-aj-dybantsa-with-top-pick-nba-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/06\/23\/wizards-select-byu-star-aj-dybantsa-with-top-pick-nba-draft\/\">AJ Dybantsa with the No. 1 pick<\/a> was, in fact, the right choice. But once NBA Commissioner Adam Silver took the stage, announcing Washington\u2019s decision, Dawkins described the evening as \u201crefreshing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the first round of the NBA draft Tuesday night, Washington Wizards General Manager Will Dawkins recuperated. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-724513","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\/724513","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=724513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}