{"id":146896,"date":"2025-09-16T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146896\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:46:09","slug":"nbl-south-east-melbourne-phoenix-to-release-belgian-import-vrenz-bleijenbergh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146896\/","title":{"rendered":"NBL: South East Melbourne Phoenix to release Belgian import Vrenz Bleijenbergh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix are planning to release import Vrenz Bleijenbergh, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nbl\/story\/_\/id\/46264346\/espn-big-nbl-team-team-2025-26-season-preview\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1545846_729x729_1-1.png&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.png\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bleijenbergh was informed on Tuesday morning ahead of the team&#8217;s practice, sources said, with the Belgian forward set to leave the team ahead of their NBL regular season opener against the Cairns Taipans on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old averaged 10.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game for the Phoenix at the NBL Blitz.<\/p>\n<p>In a preseason game against the Ryukyu Golden Kings in Perth last Friday, Bleijenbergh had five points off the bench before receiving two technical fouls, leading to his ejection from the contest.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Vrenz Bleijenbergh is set to be released by the Phoenix.\u00a0Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix have already begun the process of searching for a new import to replace Bleijenbergh, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Bleijenbergh had joined the Phoenix coming off two seasons with Merkezefendi in Turkey; he averaged 11.6 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game over the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix are planning to release import Vrenz Bleijenbergh, sources told ESPN. Editor&#8217;s Picks Bleijenbergh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-146896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146896","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=146896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}