{"id":475737,"date":"2024-01-12T10:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475737"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:32:04","slug":"nba-draft-to-become-a-2-night-event","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nba-draft-to-become-a-2-night-event\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA draft to become a 2-night event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball League is very close to making the 2024 NBA Draft a 2-night event in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Report: The 2024 NBA Draft will take place over two days:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWxfSGFkIT\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/gWxfSGFkIT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dime (@DimeUPROXX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DimeUPROXX\/status\/1745815394726941159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The draft would split into 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> rounds on consecutive nights \u2013 June 26<sup>th<\/sup> and June 27<sup>th<\/sup>-. Still, to do so, the NBA must get approval from the National Basketball Players Association before doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The league and the basketballers&#8217; union have been discussing this matter recently.<\/p>\n<p>Among several reasons for making the draft 2-night event, including better revenue from broadcasting, the league and the franchises believe that the hours between Wednesday night&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> round and Thursday\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round will give organizations additional time to trade and prepare for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> night.<\/p>\n<p>Franchises are not happy with the swift speed of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round and think that having an additional day between the 1<sup>st<\/sup> and the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round will help the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball League is very close to making the 2024 NBA Draft a 2-night event in the Big Apple. Report: The 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[1067],"acf":{"announce":"The league plans for the draft to become a two-night event.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475740,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475737\/revisions\/475740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475737"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475737"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}