{"id":769440,"date":"2026-06-24T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/769440\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:54:14","slug":"bulls-hope-for-more-unc-magic-with-wilson-bucks-begin-post-giannis-era-by-taking-burries-and-ament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/769440\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls hope for more UNC magic with Wilson. Bucks begin post-Giannis era by taking Burries and Ament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XLY64YQXPRGKZC5H3QFWNRA5MY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Chicago Bulls tried to strike gold in North Carolina again and the Milwaukee Bucks started their post-Giannis Antetokounmpo era in the first round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/nba-draft-2026-picks-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA draft<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D7DFWPM2QFB67KRBSWKB2YWAD4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Both the Bulls and Bucks had two top-15 picks Tuesday to highlight the first night of the draft in the Central Division. That represented a major change from last year, when the only Central team with a first-round pick was Chicago, which <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-draft-6f661fc0ce2c8e7f151c92b6de9ea15e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took Noa Essengue<\/a> at No. 12 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls tried to strike gold in North Carolina again and the Milwaukee Bucks started their post-Giannis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[75174,7,94253,113,126,3866,6,82226,446,12,43263,14942,3101,11,82227,22097,114,66],"class_list":["post-769440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-2026-nba-schedule","tag-basketball","tag-bkn-nba-draft-central-division","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-nba","tag-nba-2026-news","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-highlights","tag-nba-latest-news","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-schedule-2026","tag-nba-scores","tag-pacers","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116805898334348987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769440","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=769440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}