{"id":219483,"date":"2025-10-17T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219483\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:40:10","slug":"perths-star-import-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219483\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth&#8217;s star import released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just five games into his NBL career, US import Mason Jones has been released by the Perth Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>First reported by 10 News First&#8217;s Lachy Reid, the 10-time NBL champions have parted ways with guard Jones, who has played with the Houston Rockets, Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Perth Wildcats general manager of basketball operations and COO Danny Mills acknowledged Jones\u2019 contribution to the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMason has been a dedicated professional during his time in Perth and handled himself with great character,&#8221; Mills said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank him for his efforts and wish him every success in the future.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Through his five games in Perth, Jones produced averages of 9.5 points (on 30 per cent shooting from the field), 2.8 assists and 2 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes just days after the Wildcats suffered a heavy defeat to Brisbane at RAC Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats next play Sydney on Sunday at Qudos Bank Arena, from 4.300pm AEDT, live on ESPN and 10 DRAMA.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760679610_753_68d1e546bf14e7cc65f14d99_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just five games into his NBL career, US import Mason Jones has been released by the Perth Wildcats.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-219483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219483","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=219483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}