{"id":399900,"date":"2026-11-08T19:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T18:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/?p=399900"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:33:09","slug":"nique-clifford-joins-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/nique-clifford-joins-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Nique Clifford joins the Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sacramento Kings have agreed to trade Nique Clifford to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for two future second-round draft picks, reported Shams Charania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clifford had fallen out of the rotation and heads to a Thunder side in need of reinforcements following the long-term injuries to Jaylen Williams, Cason Williams and, most recently, Chet Holmgren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth noting that the player was originally selected with the 25th pick of the 2025 Draft by the Thunder themselves, although he was immediately traded to the California franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last season he played 75 official games, averaging <strong>8.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists<\/strong> in 25 minutes per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Cover photo: Reuters)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the trade, the Sacramento Kings receive two future second-round draft picks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":399901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152,8,28],"class_list":["post-399900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nique-clifford","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-sacramento-kings","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2026-10-22T011837Z_1269078301_MT1USATODAY30150790_RTRMADP_3_NBA-SACRAMENTO-KINGS-AT-LOS-ANGELES-CLIPPERS.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kiera Gardner","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/author\/kiera\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399960,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399900\/revisions\/399960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}