{"id":197207,"date":"2025-10-08T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197207\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:36:10","slug":"ex-taipan-to-join-euroleague-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197207\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Taipan to join EuroLeague side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cairns Taipans star Taran Armstrong has reportedly inked a deal with Dubai Basketball in the EuroLeague.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc is reporting that Armstrong, who signed a two-way deal with the Golden State Warriors earlier this year, is joining Dubai Basketball, whose roster also includes former NBA players Davis Bertans, Dwayne Bacon, and Justin Anderson.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Australian point guard Taran Armstrong has agreed to a deal with Dubai Basketball in the EuroLeague, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1975772817582092378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 8, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Tasmania product most recently played 12 matches with Golden State&#8217;s G League affiliate, the Santa Cruz Warriors, averaging 11.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists a game.<\/p>\n<p>While Golden State would retain Armstrong\u2019s NBA rights, a move to the EuroLeague team could open up more opportunities playing at a higher level.<\/p>\n<p>In his most recent Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL season, the 23-year-old guard averaged 17.1 points, 4.7 assists and 4.6 rebounds a game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759908970_497_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":"Former Cairns Taipans star Taran Armstrong has reportedly inked a deal with Dubai Basketball in the EuroLeague. ESPN&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-197207","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\/197207","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=197207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}