{"id":147082,"date":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","slug":"phoenix-plan-to-release-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147082\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix plan to release import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix are reportedly set to release one of their imports on the eve of the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 season.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc, Josh King\u2019s Phoenix are planning to release Vrenz Bleijenbergh from his one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The South East Melbourne Phoenix are planning to release Vrenz Bleijenbergh, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1967766568915570753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 16, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Belgium forward Bleijenbergh, who signed with the Heartland club in July, played in the club\u2019s two recent Perth Wildcats International Series fixtures against the Ryukyu Golden Kings and Sunrockers Shibuya, averaging 5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per contest, as well as at the CODE Sports NBL Blitz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m all good with SEM, they kept it all professional,&#8221; said Bleijenbergh in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/south-east-melbourne-phoenix-axe-import-vrenz-bleijenberg-after-referee-abuse-claims\/news-story\/4fccc496ff11e07bdd605690a957a9c8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CODE Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved being here, loved the club and I do like the city a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No bad blood at all, just an unfortunate situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix, who are reportedly now on the lookout for a third import to complement John Brown III and Hunter Maldonado, open their NBL26 season on Saturday against Cairns at John Cain Arena from 5.30pm AEST, live on ESPN.<\/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<p>\u200d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix are reportedly set to release one of their imports on the eve of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-147082","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\/147082","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=147082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}