{"id":148027,"date":"2025-09-16T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148027\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:50:10","slug":"returning-hawk-completes-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148027\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Hawk completes roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illawarra Hawks have filled their last Australian spot on the roster, signing returning former Sydney Kings champion Biwali Bayles. <\/p>\n<p>Achieving a spot on the main stage last year in the NBA, the 23-year-old represented the New York Knicks at Summer League. <\/p>\n<p>Bayles played for BBC Nyon in the Swiss Men&#8217;s Basketball League (SBL) &#8211; where he earned All-Domestic Team honours earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>The two-time NBL champion had refined his skills this off-season in Australia with the Sydney Comets in the 2025 NBL1 East season. He averaged 28.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. <\/p>\n<p>Bayles joins the reigning champions ahead of the first round of NBL26, with the team travelling to Singapore to play in the 2025 FIBA Intercontinental Cup on Friday night. <\/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 filled their last Australian spot on the roster, signing returning former Sydney Kings champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-148027","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\/148027","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=148027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}