{"id":768569,"date":"2026-06-23T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/768569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:06:14","slug":"sixers-mock-draft-dailyn-swain-to-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/768569\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers Mock Draft: Dailyn Swain to Philadelphia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49041464\/2026-nba-mock-draft-projecting-60-picks-draft-night-trade-talks-boozer-peterson-dybantsa-acuff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Draft\u00a0day<\/a> here, ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Woo had the Philadelphia Sixers taking a\u00a0wing player from Texas in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Woo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49041464\/2026-nba-mock-draft-projecting-60-picks-draft-night-trade-talks-boozer-peterson-dybantsa-acuff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mocked\u00a0Texas wing Dailyn Swain\u00a0to the Sixers with the No.\u00a022 pick<\/a> (via the Houston Rockets), their only pick in this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Texas Wing, Dailyn Swain?<\/p>\n<p>Swain\u00a0is coming off an impressive junior year with the Longhorns, where he averaged 17.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 54.2 percent from the floor. A highlight of Swain\u2019s career came during his sophomore season, in the Tournament, where he\u00a0grabbed eight rebounds\u00a0to go with\u00a027 points in the\u00a0Longhorns&#8217;\u00a086-73\u00a0loss to Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>How would Swain fit on the Sixers?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap\">Swain\u00a0could give the Sixers a legitimate two-way wing option behind Paul George, as the team doesn&#8217;t have much depth behind him at the wing spots.\u00a0George\u00a0missed 25 games with a suspension this season, and played in just 37 games this season; the team had Dominick Barlow and Kelly Oubre Jr behind him this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49041464\/2026-nba-mock-draft-projecting-60-picks-draft-night-trade-talks-boozer-peterson-dybantsa-acuff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">From ESPN.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap\">He is an interesting fit in Philly, as a downhill player with good length who is a solid enough rebounder and defender to shore up the margins of their rotation. He would deepen the 76ers at multiple positions.<\/p>\n<p>The Impact of Kelly Oubre&#8217;s Free Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap\">If Oubre walks in free agency, Swain\u00a0could have a rotational role right away with the Sixers, an area they lacked depth in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>How to Listen to the 2026 NBA Draft Live<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap\">You can listen to the NBA Draft, Round 1 coverage begins on Tuesday at 7:30, and Round 2 coverage continues on Wednesday at 7:30 on 97.3 ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Top Ten Rebounders in Sixers Franchise History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the\u00a02026 NBA Draft\u00a0day here, ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Woo had the Philadelphia Sixers taking a\u00a0wing player from Texas in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,1386,7,6,678,207,3817,96],"class_list":["post-768569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-articles","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-sixers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116800283182127138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768569","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=768569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}