{"id":217044,"date":"2025-10-16T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217044\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:44:07","slug":"brooklyn-nets-ditch-chinas-zeng-fanbo-days-after-disappointing-macau-outing-against-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217044\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets ditch China\u2019s Zeng Fanbo days after disappointing Macau outing against Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese basketball prospect Zeng Fanbo was waived by the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, just days after the team concluded its NBA China Games in Macau.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 22-year-old recorded one steal and three fouls while not attempting any shots.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zeng\u2019s management team said the Harbin native would remain in the United States to continue his recovery from a serious back injury and thanked fans for their support and care along the way.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBeing able to stand on the court of the NBA pre-season game and wear an NBA jersey was an extremely valuable experience for Zeng,\u201d the statement read. \u201cHe was dealt a serious injury in his back and waist in late April, severely affecting his original off-season plans.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cZeng has put all his efforts into his dream. It takes courage to stand on the court again. I hope everyone will support and encourage him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese basketball prospect Zeng Fanbo was waived by the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, just days after the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[132611,64,63,726,77821,5997,21976,512,21421,69402,43820,132613,6184,97543,53573,132612,10109,23359,590,7185,85,106738],"class_list":["post-217044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-2025-nba-china-games","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-beijing-ducks","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-cba","tag-china","tag-chinese-basketball-association","tag-exhibit-10-contract","tag-g-league","tag-harbin","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-long-island-nets","tag-macau","tag-mfon-udofia","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-national-basketball-league","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sports","tag-zeng-fanbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217044","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=217044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}