{"id":224892,"date":"2025-08-11T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/224892\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:28:21","slug":"pelicans-acquire-a-second-2025-first-round-draft-pick-from-the-pacers-in-exchange-for-a-2026-pick-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/224892\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans acquire a second 2025 first-round draft pick from the Pacers in exchange for a 2026 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 The Indiana Pacers have agreed to trade their 23rd overall choice in next week\u2019s NBA draft to New Orleans for a 2026 first-round pick, the Pelicans announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal gives the Pelicans two first-round picks \u2014 the seventh and 23rd overall \u2014 in the draft, raising the prospect that New Orleans could package both in a deal to move up in the first round next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans also will receive the rights to Mojave King, a 2023 second-round draft choice who has played for Indiana\u2019s G League affiliate as well as overseas in Puerto Rico and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers are getting back a 2026 pick they had traded to the Toronto Raptors in a 2024 deal sending Pascal Siakam to Indiana. Last February, Toronto dealt that pick to New Orleans as part of a trade that sent Brandon Ingram to the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers are the reigning Eastern Conference champions and currently trail the Oklahoma City Thunder, 3-2, in the best-of-seven NBA Finals, with Game 6 scheduled for Thursday in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 The Indiana Pacers have agreed to trade their 23rd overall choice in next week\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,4441,588,113,126,3866,4495,3808,6,446,12,11,478,470,114,279,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-224892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-ingram","10":"tag-in-state-wire","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-indianapacers","14":"tag-la-state-wire","15":"tag-louisiana","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-basketball","18":"tag-nba-draft","19":"tag-nba-playoffs","20":"tag-new-orleans","21":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","22":"tag-pacers","23":"tag-pascal-siakam","24":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115011788079454700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224892","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=224892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}