{"id":773596,"date":"2026-06-29T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/773596\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:48:27","slug":"boiler-alert-new-boilers-in-the-nba-rivers-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/773596\/","title":{"rendered":"Boiler Alert: New Boilers in the NBA &#038; Rivers Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The NBA Draft was largely a success for the Purdue men\u2019s basketball team with two players getting drafted and two players signing deals after the draft meaning that their journeys are just beginning. Ryan and I discuss the landing spots for the four Boilermaker men\u2019s basketball players in this episode of the Boiler Alert podcast. Ryan laments the fact that his <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/chicago\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bulls;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago Bulls&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> held the rights to Braden Smith for all of a couple minutes before sending him to the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/indiana\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pacers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Pacers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacers<\/a>. Ah what might have been\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Then, we take a look at incoming Purdue men\u2019s basketball freshman Rivers Knight and what he will bring to the Boilermakers next season. He\u2019s got a lot of upside especially with his size. He also spent a season playing with fellow incoming freshman Jacob Webber. That could result in some instant chemistry for the Boilermakers. With the forward position having a lot of opportunity how will the young man respond? All that and more in today\u2019s Boiler Alert podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/new-boilers-in-the-nba-draft-rivers-knight\/id1089675633?i=1000774651187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:View Link;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;View Link&quot;}\" class=\"link \">View Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA Draft was largely a success for the Purdue men\u2019s basketball team with two players getting drafted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,3385,2456,919,329,568,6,12,3408,66128,114,16677],"class_list":["post-773596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-players","tag-braden-smith","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-getty-images","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-draft-combine","tag-nbae","tag-pacers","tag-purdue-mens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116833242581599618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773596","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=773596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}