{"id":203625,"date":"2025-10-10T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203625\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:01:08","slug":"season-debut-beckons-for-united-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203625\/","title":{"rendered":"Season debut beckons for United star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United has announced that superstar Chris Goulding is set to make his long-awaited season debut on Sunday, when his side hosts the Cairns Taipans at John Cain Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Three-time NBL champion Goulding, who won a bronze medal with the Australian Boomers at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has missed United\u2019s opening four matches due to a quad injury.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Captain Chris Goulding is set to make his season debut on Sunday afternoon against the Cairns Taipans! <br \/>Goulding could make history, needing just four three-pointers to move into 3rd all-time in three-point makes in NBL history.<br \/>Make sure you&#8217;re there: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/STjS290c4Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/STjS290c4Y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dm2voO8aRc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dm2voO8aRc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melbourne United (@MelbUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelbUnited\/status\/1976478564070363626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 10, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Adding to the occasion, which tips off at 4.30pm AEDT, is that the sharpshooter needs just four triples to move into third all-time in three-point makes in NBL history.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL26 Round 4 fixture live on ESPN and Channel 10 (DRAMA).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760122868_155_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":"Melbourne United has announced that superstar Chris Goulding is set to make his long-awaited season debut on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-203625","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\/203625","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=203625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}