{"id":190649,"date":"2025-10-05T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190649\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:48:08","slug":"poole-acknowledges-support-during-historic-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190649\/","title":{"rendered":"Poole acknowledges support during historic series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBAxNBL Fan Night at Rod Laver Arena had an electric atmosphere that the players thoroughly enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, New Orleans Pelicans star Jordan Poole, who helped his side win Saturday&#8217;s three-point contest, had high praise for the Australian hoops fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It [the night] was fantastic &#8211; great crowd, great turnout,&#8221; guard Poole said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[We&#8217;re all] really excited to be here, [in front of these] amazing fans, who love the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love the fans [and the love we&#8217;ve felt] is why we&#8217;re so excited and thankful to be here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re extremely thankful to be able to be part of history, and we can&#8217;t wait to come back [to Australia].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Poole, who had 11 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists in Friday&#8217;s match with Melbourne United, and his Pelicans return to the court this afternoon for game two of the historic series against the South East Melbourne Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/premier.ticketek.com.au\/shows\/show.aspx?sh=NBAXNBL25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO ALL EVENTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you can watch the NBAxNBL games:<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans Pelicans vs South East Melbourne Phoenix<br \/>Sunday, October 5, 2025 \u2013 2pm AEDT<br \/>How to watch: Live on Amazon Prime Video, 10 and NBA League Pass<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759628888_6_68d1e546bf14e7cc65f14d99_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBAxNBL Fan Night at Rod Laver Arena had an electric atmosphere that the players thoroughly enjoyed. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190649","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\/190649","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=190649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}