{"id":107464,"date":"2025-08-30T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107464\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:02:21","slug":"ben-griscti-taken-to-hospital-after-backboard-falls-on-adelaide-36ers-player-at-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107464\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Griscti taken to hospital after backboard falls on Adelaide 36ers player at practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NBL player has been sent to a Canberra hospital for assessment on his neck after a freak training accident.<\/p>\n<p>Second-year Adelaide 36ers centre Ben Griscti was injured after one of the AIS Arena backboards landed on him.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports suggested Griscti and the 36ers were midway through a shootaround on Saturday when a teammate landed a dunk, leading to the backboard collapsing and falling on Griscti as he attempted to collect the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Watch live coverage of NBL 2025-26 season with ESPN on Kayo Sports | <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-bkb-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, who\u2019s in Canberra with the 36ers for the NBL Blitz pre-season competition, was taken to hospital approximately two hours after the incident following initial assessment from medicos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nbl\/story\/_\/id\/46109441\/nbl-backboard-falls-adelaide-36ers-player-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ESPN reported<\/a> Griscti had \u201climited feeling in his right arm\u201d for a short period of time before quickly regaining all feeling, with the 36ers confirming Griscti was in good spirits and able to walk when the ambulance arrived.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755550689_238_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The NBL released a statement on Saturday, confirming it was \u201caware of a training incident\u201d involving Griscti <\/p>\n<p> \u201cGriscti is in a stable condition in hospital,\u201d the league statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circumstances surrounding the incident will be investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The league added all Blitz games scheduled for Saturday would go ahead as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>An Adelaide product, Griscti is in his second year on the 36ers roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NBL player has been sent to a Canberra hospital for assessment on his neck after a freak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[1724,64,63,689,7292,76983,76979,726,48977,3423,2667,512,9239,800,76981,76982,27243,677,76984,85,76980],"class_list":["post-107464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-capital-territory","tag-backboard-falls","tag-backboards-landing","tag-basketball","tag-ben-griscti","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-canberra","tag-china","tag-eastern-asia","tag-espn-inc","tag-initial-assessment","tag-league-statement","tag-multiple-reports","tag-oceania","tag-pre-season-competition","tag-sports","tag-training-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107464","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=107464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}