{"id":169731,"date":"2025-09-26T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169731\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:48:08","slug":"36ers-close-in-on-new-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169731\/","title":{"rendered":"36ers close in on new import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after parting ways with NBA star Montrezel Harrell, the Adelaide 36ers are reportedly close to a deal to sign a replacement import.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc tweeted &#8220;Nick Rakocevic &#8211; a 6\u201911 Serbian-American big man &#8211; is nearing a deal with the Adelaide 36ers, his agent Charles Misuraca of SLASH told ESPN.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nick Rakocevic &#8211; a 6\u201911 Serbian-American big man &#8211; is nearing a deal with the Adelaide 36ers, his agent Charles Misuraca of SLASH told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1971402643903021430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 26, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old USC alum, who has played in China, the Philippines and Lebanon, is coming off a stint in Puerto Rico, where he averaged 14 points and 8.1 points across 21 games with two teams (Santeros de Aguada and Capitanes de Arecibo).<\/p>\n<p>The 36ers host Brisbane on Sunday, in their home-opener of the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL26 season.<\/p>\n<p>That Round 2 fixture tips off at 4.30pm AEST, broadcast live on ESPN and Channel 10.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758865688_183_68d1e546bf14e7cc65f14d99_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just one day after parting ways with NBA star Montrezel Harrell, the Adelaide 36ers are reportedly close to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-169731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169731","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=169731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}