{"id":127489,"date":"2025-06-26T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127489\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:53:10","slug":"suns-acquiring-no-31-pick-from-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127489\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns Acquiring No. 31 Pick From Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Suns have reached their third trade agreement of the day, having struck a deal with the Timberwolves for the No. 31 overall pick, reports Shams Charania of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1938370941735592256\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>According to Charania, in exchange for the first pick of the second round, Minnesota will receive No. 36 and a pair of future second-rounders from Phoenix. Those future second-rounders are the least favorable of the Nuggets\u2019 and Warriors\u2019 2026 picks and the most favorable of the Suns\u2019 and Rockets\u2019 2032 picks, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonKrawczynski\/status\/1938378457328869698\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a> Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Joseph\u2019s forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/rasheer-fleming-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-26_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rasheer Fleming<\/a> is the top target for the Suns at No. 31, Charania adds (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1938371579597279437\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">via Twitter<\/a>). Fleming is coming off an impressive junior season in which he averaged 14.7 points, 8.5 rebounds, 1.4 steals and 1.5 blocks per game in 35 appearances (31.1 minutes). He posted a shooting slash line of .531\/.390\/.743 for the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>According to John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gambo987\/status\/1938374419019415589\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter link<\/a>), Fleming was a top-20 prospect on the Suns\u2019 board entering the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix came into the day with the 52nd and 59th overall picks in the second round, but was clearly intent on moving up. The Suns initially <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/nets-trading-no-36-pick-to-suns-for-two-future-second-rounders.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">agreed to acquire<\/a> No. 36 from Brooklyn for two future second-rounders before trading up from there to No. 31. The club also made a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/warriors-trading-no-41-pick-to-suns-for-nos-52-59.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">separate deal<\/a> with the Warriors, sending Golden State No. 52 and No. 59 in exchange for No. 41.<\/p>\n<p>For now then, the Suns appear poised to use the 31st overall pick on Fleming, then would be on the board 10 picks later at No. 41 \u2014 if they haven\u2019t traded it before then.<\/p>\n<p>None of these deals will be made official yet, since they involve picks the Suns are acquiring from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranke01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Durant<\/a> trade, which can\u2019t be formally completed until July for salary-cap reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Suns have reached their third trade agreement of the day, having struck a deal with the Timberwolves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,307,152,3954,6,2028,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-127489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","11":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rasheer-fleming","14":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114752363357505227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}