{"id":131301,"date":"2025-06-28T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/131301\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:35:12","slug":"kings-pick-maxime-raynaud-at-no-42-overall-in-2025-nba-draft-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/131301\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings pick Maxime Raynaud at No. 42 overall in 2025 NBA Draft \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After making a surprise trade into the first round <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/nique-clifford-trade-thunder-2025-draft\/1858103\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for guard\/forward Nique Clifford<\/a> on Day 1 of the 2025 NBA Draft, the Kings used their second-round pick to select a center on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento drafted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/maxime-raynaud-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxime Raynaud<\/a> out of Stanford at No. 42 overall, adding a 22-year-old Frenchman who is a skilled 7-foot shooter and can hold his own on the glass.<\/p>\n<p>Raynaud was born and raised in Paris, France, before joining the Stanford men&#8217;s basketball program, where he earned Second-Team All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 Most Improved Player honors as a junior. He was a superstar as a senior, averaging 20 points, 10.5 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.4 blocks and 0.9 steals during his final collegiate campaign en route to First-Team All-ACC honors and the Skip Prosser Award for being the top scholar-athlete in  the ACC.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Sacramento Kings have selected Stanford&#8217;s Maxime Raynaud with the No. 42 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Fits a coveted mold at 7&#8217;1 with impressive shooting ability, which gives him a quicker path to a NBA role than some players who will be drafted before him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rpQffTgGfV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rpQffTgGfV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1938406225214853361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Clifford and Raynaud on their way to Sacramento to join 2024 first-rounder Devin Carter and stars like Domantas Sabonis and DeMar DeRozan, the Kings certainly are set for the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/deuce-mo-a-sacramento-kings-nba-podcast\/id1105665515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow The Deuce &amp; Mo Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After making a surprise trade into the first round for guard\/forward Nique Clifford on Day 1 of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[30,7,4500,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-131301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-2025-nba-draft","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-kings","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-sacramento","14":"tag-sacramento-kings","15":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114760550315084255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131301","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=131301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}