{"id":2110,"date":"2025-07-18T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2110\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:45:08","slug":"one-of-australias-top-young-basketball-players-headed-to-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2110\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Australia&#8217;s top young basketball players headed to Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Australia\u2019s finest young basketball players is headed to Pitt.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Siulepa, a 6-foot-7 forward who just turned 19, has committed to the Panthers, according to a report by ESPN and a statement from his pro team in Australia, confirming a piece of long-rumored news.<\/p>\n<p>Siulepa, a physical forward with a rugby background, had a breakthrough performance at the U19 Basketball World Cup in Switzerland early this month, averaging 18.9 points and 8.1 rebounds for an Aussie team that lost to Germany in the quarterfinals. He had 19 points and 12 rebounds in a group stage loss to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt coach Jeff Capel was a member of the USA Basketball Men\u2019s Junior National Team Committee that picked the American team for the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Australia\u2019s finest young basketball players is headed to Pitt. Roman Siulepa, a 6-foot-7 forward who just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}