{"id":199760,"date":"2025-10-09T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199760\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:58:10","slug":"phoenix-close-in-on-import-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199760\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix close-in on import signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix are reportedly in advanced talks with five-season NBA player Wes Iwundu, according to ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc. <\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix brought in Belgian forward Vrenz Bleijenbergh at the start of the season before parting ways, and now eye 2017 NBA draftee Iwundu.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wes Iwundu &#8211; a 6\u20196 American wing &#8211; is in advanced talks with the South East Melbourne Phoenix, sources told ESPN. Iwundu, 30, played five seasons in the NBA, primarily with the Orlando Magic (2017-2020).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1976101890648834415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 9, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8217;6&#8243; wing has appeared on the Orlando Magic&#8217;s squad and G League affiliate, Lakeland Magic, as well as other NBA clubs &#8211; the Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans, Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland charge and Stockton Kings. <\/p>\n<p>He most recently appeared in the Greek Basket League for Promitheas Patras. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759993090_172_68d22c37ef0e46fbe3374c05_68d1e546bf14e7cc65f14d99_Updated%20NBL26%20banner.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix are reportedly in advanced talks with five-season NBA player Wes Iwundu, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-199760","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\/199760","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=199760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}