{"id":106146,"date":"2025-08-30T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106146\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:47:07","slug":"nbl-backboard-falls-on-adelaide-36ers-players-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106146\/","title":{"rendered":"NBL: Backboard falls on Adelaide 36ers player&#8217;s head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA &#8212; Adelaide 36ers big-man Ben Griscti has suffered a neck injury after a backboard at the AIS Arena fell on his head.<\/p>\n<p>The 36ers were taking part in a shootaround on Saturday afternoon ahead of their final game at the NBL Blitz &#8212; the league&#8217;s preseason tournament &#8212; when a teammate&#8217;s dunk attempt led to the backboard collapsing and falling on Griscti.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old initially had limited feeling in his right arm, sources told ESPN, but quickly regained feeling in all extremities and is currently dealing with neck soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Griscti waited multiple hours for an ambulance to arrive but is currently in good spirits, a 36ers spokesperson told ESPN. He was able to stand and walk when the ambulance arrived.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Mark Metcalfe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Griscti &#8212; an Adelaide native &#8212; is entering his second season with the 36ers.<\/p>\n<p>The NBL is investigating the incident, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The league has been contacted for comment, and are expected to release a statement shortly.<\/p>\n<p>The Blitz is scheduled to continue at the AIS Arena on Saturday evening with a pair of games: Melbourne United face the Brisbane Bullets, before the 36ers take on the Tasmania JackJumpers. It&#8217;s not known at this point if this incident will effect those games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANBERRA &#8212; Adelaide 36ers big-man Ben Griscti has suffered a neck injury after a backboard at the AIS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-106146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106146","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=106146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}