{"id":103353,"date":"2025-08-29T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103353\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:27:09","slug":"cotton-a-crow-as-adelaide-signs-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103353\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton a Crow, as Adelaide signs rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The 194cm highly talented basketballer has represented Australia at multiple junior levels\n            <\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a week in China with NBA superstar Steph Curry, in-demand 18-year-old Indy Cotton has signed with Adelaide as a Category B Rookie.<\/p>\n<p>The 194cm highly talented basketballer has represented Australia at multiple junior levels, including Under 16s where he won gold at the FIBA Asian Championship in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Despite now living in Queensland, Cotton grew up playing junior football in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>His father Jarrod, a member of Port Adelaide\u2019s inaugural squad in 1997, spent the bulk of his playing days in the SANFL before transitioning into coaching.<\/p>\n<p>Crows General Manager List Management Justin Reid described Indy as exciting talent who could carve out a long career in football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be Indy\u2019s club of choice,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an extremely talented kid who, despite a few years out of the game, has all the ingredients to succeed at AFL level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis footballing pedigree is clearly evident from his father, and we firmly believe he can be a hugely valuable addition to our squad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 194cm highly talented basketballer has represented Australia at multiple junior levels Fresh off a week in China&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-103353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}