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Pacific Notes: Kings, Sabonis, Warriors, Suns

By | at June 4, 2026 8:51 pm

The Kings are hosting a pre-draft workout on Friday featuring Boopie Miller (SMU), Nick Boyd (Wisconsin), Lamar Wilkerson (Indiana), Anthony Roy (Oklahoma State), Izaiyah Nelson (South Florida) and Ugonna Onyenso (Virginia), tweets James Ham of The Kings Beat.

Sacramento controls three picks (Nos. 7, 34 and 45) in the upcoming draft. Big men Onyenso (No. 43) and Nelson (No. 47) are the top-ranked prospects in that group on ESPN’s big board.

Here’s more from around the Pacific:

  • After Evan Sidery claimed (via Twitter) that the Hornets and Kings discussed a possible trade involving Domantas Sabonis during the 2025/26 season, Ham shot down that rumor (Twitter link). “Not accurate,” a league source told Ham. Sabonis, a three-time All-Star center, is owed $94.1MM over the next two seasons.
  • Nick Avila of NBC Sports Bay Area rounds up seven mock drafts for the lottery picks controlled by the Kings (No. 7) and Warriors (No. 11). Four outlets have Sacramento selecting former Houston Cougars guard Kingston Flemings, while only one name appears multiple times (twice) for Golden State: Mexican forward Karim Lopez, who spent the last two seasons with the New Zealand Breakers in the National Basketball League.
  • Although the Suns currently only control the 47th overall pick in this month’s draft, they have a recent history of moving both up and down, notes Gerald Bourguet of Sports360AZ.com. He acknowledges the odds of Phoenix being able to land a first-round pick seem fairly low given the limited assets at the team’s disposal, but Bourguet lists five prospects the Suns should consider if they’re able to move into the first round, including Stanford’s Ebuka Okorie and Iowa State’s Joshua Jefferson.
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Portsmouth Invitational Tournament Announces 2026 Rosters

By | at April 13, 2026 11:47 pm

The 2026 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament will take place this week from April 15-18 in Portsmouth, VA. The event features college seniors working to boost their stock ahead of the NBA draft, with invitations to the combine a possibility for some standouts.

Several P.I.T. alumni have gone on to become solid NBA players in recent years, including Toumani Camara, Craig Porter Jr., Daniss Jenkins and Kobe Sanders, among others. Camara (2023) and Sanders (2025) were both second-round picks.

This year’s tournament features eight different teams with eight players apiece, for a total of 64 participants. Here’s the full list, per the P.I.T.:

Champaign native Boswell, who helped lead the Illini to the Final Four, appears to be one of the top prospects among the group. The 6’2″ guard came in at No. 66 on ESPN’s latest big board, with Volunteers center Okpara (No. 86) and Boilermakers big man Kaufman-Renn (No. 88) among the other prospects on the top-100 list.

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Draft Notes: Yessoufou, Fears, Mullins, Roy

By | at April 11, 2026 11:26 am

On the heels of a strong freshman season, Baylor wing Tounde Yessoufou has declared for the 2026 NBA draft, he announced on social media (Instagram link). While Yessoufou could test the waters while maintaining his NCAA eligibility, his statement doesn’t say anything about that, so we’re assuming for now that he’s focused on going pro.

Yessoufou, 19, was a day-one starter for the Bears in 2025/26 and averaged 17.8 points, 5.9 rebounds, 2.0 steals, and 1.6 assists in 32.6 minutes per contest. The 6’5″ guard/forward launched 5.3 three-point attempts per game and hit just 29.3% of them, but given his strong physical tools and “flashes of shot-making,” he’s an intriguing NBA prospect, writes Jonathan Wasserman of Bleacher Report.

Wasserman has Yessoufou coming off the board 34th overall in his latest mock draft, while ESPN’s Jeremy Woo places him 40th on his top-100 list. The 19-year-old has a chance to become a first-round pick with a strong pre-draft process.

Here are a few more draft-related notes:

  • Michigan State junior guard Jeremy Fears will test the NBA draft waters this spring, he announced Friday on Instagram. Fears had a breakout 2025/26 season, averaging 15.2 points and an NCAA-best 9.4 assists per game en route to spots on the AP’s All-American second team and the All-Big Ten first team. Still, the 6’2″ guard wouldn’t be a lock to be drafted if he keeps his name in the pool — he ranks 76th on ESPN’s big board.
  • After helping UConn reach the national final by scoring double-digit points in five of six NCAA tournament games and hitting a game-winning three-pointer in the Elite Eight vs. Duke, freshman guard Braylon Mullins will face a decision on whether or not to enter the draft. Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog.com explores that decision, citing one NBA executive who suggested that Mullins would be better off staying in school for another year. UConn head coach Dan Hurley said during an appearance on The Dan Patrick Show that Mullins could be better off returning to the Huskies if he’s not sure he’ll be a lottery pick. “Players like Braylon, he probably would make more money at UConn next year than he would if he was the 15th pick,” Hurley said. For what it’s worth, Wasserman moved Mullins up to No. 9 in his latest mock draft, though the freshman ranks 17th on ESPN’s board.
  • Oklahoma State guard Anthony Roy is going through the NBA pre-draft process, agent Scott Nichols tells Jeff Goodman of Field of 68 (Twitter link), but he’s also entering the transfer portal in the hopes of gaining one more year of NCAA eligibility due to an ankle injury that limited him to 11 games in 2024/25 at Green Bay. Roy has been enrolled at six schools in six years from 2020-26, but spent two of those seasons at small non-NCAA colleges.
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