{"id":175049,"date":"2025-09-28T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175049\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:43:10","slug":"how-boguts-wisdom-is-shaping-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175049\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bogut\u2019s wisdom is shaping Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Kings have no shortage of big names at their disposal during the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 Season.<\/p>\n<p>From six-time NBL championship-winner coach Brian Goorjian, to four-time Olympian Matthew Dellavedova, who also won the 2016 NBA title with Cleveland, and former league MVP Xavier Cooks, few can rival the experience on and off the court for the Kings.<\/p>\n<p>But Cooks believe the impact of another high-profile individual has been second to none during the pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Andrew] Bogut has one of the best basketball minds going around,\u201d two-time NBL champion Xavier Cooks told 2GB Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just an absolute legend of the game and we\u2019re so lucky to have him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis wisdom down-low with the bigs has been invaluable &#8211; he loves being hands on and giving feedback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBogut has achieved things in his career that we all dream of doing and he\u2019s been unbelievable for us so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Bogut, who played 783 games in the NBA and helped Golden State win the 2015 NBA championship, and his Kings open their NBL26 campaign later today against the Cairns Taipans at Qudos Bank Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Round 2 fixture tips off at 2.30pm and will be broadcast live on ESPN and Channel 10.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759059790_20_68d1e546bf14e7cc65f14d99_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Kings have no shortage of big names at their disposal during the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 Season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-175049","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\/175049","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=175049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}