{"id":137000,"date":"2025-09-12T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137000\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:59:11","slug":"report-taipans-make-import-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137000\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Taipans make import change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cairns Taipans have reportedly signed Andrew Andrews as an import for the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL26 Season.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc, Hagans will no longer play for the Taipans due to visa complications &#8211; forcing the club to look elsewhere for their final piece. <\/p>\n<p>Andrews, 32, boasts experience in the international league&#8217;s, playing for teams in Turkey, Latvia, Israel, Lithuania, Spain, and in Greece with Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n<p>He most recently played in the Lithuanian Basketball League for Wolves Twinsbet &#8211; where he averaged 13.3 points and 2 rebounds per game. <\/p>\n<p>Andrews joins the Taipans one week out from the NBL26 season tip-off. Their first game is on Saturday, September 20 against the South East Melbourne Phoenix at 5:30pm AEST. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nbl.com.au\/news\/how-to-watch-the-hungry-jacks-nbl26-season\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"w-inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757199673_287_68b7cc2dbfedd42b75e13280_68b6a2875d98c926a0d5fa93_espn.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cairns Taipans have reportedly signed Andrew Andrews as an import for the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL26 Season. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-137000","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\/137000","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=137000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}