{"id":536266,"date":"2026-01-14T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/536266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:33:22","slug":"us-sports-channel-espn-puts-estonian-basketball-player-26th-in-mock-nba-draft-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/536266\/","title":{"rendered":"US sports channel ESPN puts Estonian basketball player 26th in mock NBA draft | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flagship sports channel ESPN has placed Estonian center Henri Veesaar 26th in its NBA mock draft.<\/p>\n<p>The actual NBA draft takes place in late June, after the playoffs.<br \/>The 26th draft pick would as things stand go to NBA team the Cleveland Cavaliers. Veesaar plays for the North Carolina Tar Heels.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47581915\/2026-nba-mock-draft-new-names-top-30-first-round-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">noted<\/a>: &#8220;In his first season as a starter after transferring from Arizona, Veesaar has been quite valuable at North Carolina, making a consistent impact on the glass with legit 7-foot size, finishing well around the rim, flashing passing skills and making 51 percent of his 3s. It&#8217;s a good mix of strengths for a rotational big man, although he&#8217;s not a highly mobile defender and probably will need to play in drop coverage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Veesaar, 21, from Tallinn, previously played for the Arizona Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Follow ERR News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ERRNews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/errnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and never miss an update!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flagship sports channel ESPN has placed Estonian center Henri Veesaar 26th in its NBA mock draft. The actual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,130,1985,6,12,275],"class_list":{"0":"post-536266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-henri-veesaar","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-draft","13":"tag-sport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115894183832552429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536266","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=536266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}