{"id":202843,"date":"2025-10-10T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202843\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:51:08","slug":"phoenix-unveil-new-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202843\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix unveil new import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix have announced the signing of import forward Wes Iwundu.<\/p>\n<p>The 226-game NBA veteran, who spent time with the Orlando Magic, Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans and Atlanta Hawks, joins Josh King&#8217;s team and completes their roster.<\/p>\n<p>Standing at 198cm, the former second-round NBA draft pick out of Kansas State will form an important part of King\u2019s rotations this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix general manager of basketball operations Simon Mitchell said Iwundu has the attributes to be an extremely successful player in the NBL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWes has some really impressive traits. Firstly, he\u2019s a great athlete and a high-level defender. He has great length, a dogged determination and great lateral speed. He will also bring some perimeter marksmanship,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will fit into Coach King\u2019s game style well and he\u2019s as excited to get started as we are to welcome him to the Heartland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix are hopeful to have Iwundu on-court against the Adelaide 36ers on Thursday, October 16.<\/p>\n<p>South East Melbourne next travel to New Zealand to play the Breakers on Sunday at Spark Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Round 4 fixture tips off at 2.30pm AEST, live on ESPN, Channel 10 and Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760097068_551_68d1e546bf14e7cc65f14d99_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix have announced the signing of import forward Wes Iwundu. The 226-game NBA veteran,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-202843","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\/202843","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=202843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}