{"id":143288,"date":"2025-09-14T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143288\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:00:09","slug":"report-hawks-complete-nbl26-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143288\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Hawks complete NBL26 roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illawarra Hawks have reportedly completed their roster ahead of the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 Season, with the signing of Biwali Bayles.<\/p>\n<p>The news has been announced by multiple media sources, but yet to be announced officially by the club.<\/p>\n<p>Bayles represented the Hawks during the NBL24 campaign, making 21 appearances, after 27 and two Championships across two seasons with the Sydney Kings.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old guard had an impressive season with the Sydney Comets in the NBL1, averaging 28.6 points, 6.1 assists and 7.9 rebounds a game.<\/p>\n<p>He also represented the New York Knicks at the NBA\u2019s Summer League earlier this year.<\/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 Illawarra Hawks have reportedly completed their roster ahead of the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 Season, with the signing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-143288","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\/143288","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=143288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}