{"id":12466,"date":"2025-07-22T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12466\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:00:10","slug":"breakers-farewell-tacko-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12466\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakers farewell Tacko Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Breakers have farewelled import Tacko Fall, taking to social media to thank him for his services to the club.<\/p>\n<p>Fall was signed by the Breakers for their NBLxNBA tour in September and eventually replaced Freddie Gillespie as a full-time rostered player midway through the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL25 Season.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-centimetre big was a commanding presence in the paint for New Zealand, quickly becoming a fan favourite.<\/p>\n<p>He made a total of 18 appearances, averaging 11.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.6 blocks a game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Tacko. Here&#8217;s to the NBL&#8217;s biggest big-man! Your presence, passion, and larger than-life spirit have left a lasting impression on everyone, inspiring fans and teammates alike,\u201d the Breakers said via X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWishing you nothing but success for your next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/687451e40ce51cb263571662_681e823466fb3c3c5ee8dd7a_a6e0d0a0-c9da-4bd4-bf10-ca5514573639.jpeg\" alt=\"1920x250 (2)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Breakers have farewelled import Tacko Fall, taking to social media to thank him for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-12466","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\/12466","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=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}