{"id":248007,"date":"2025-10-29T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248007\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:54:12","slug":"cut-to-the-jase-bullets-star-casey-prather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248007\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut to the Jase: Bullets star Casey Prather"},"content":{"rendered":"

The three-time NBL champion opens up about the controversies surrounding the Bullets in NBL26<\/p>\n

Casey Prather is averaging 24.3 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Brisbane Bullets in NBL26He is a three-time NBL champion with the Perth Wildcats and Melbourne UnitedPrather reveals he is in the process of becoming an Australian citizen<\/p>\n

Three-time NBL<\/a> champion and Brisbane Bullets<\/a> star import Casey Prather joined Jason Cadee<\/a> on the latest edition of ‘Cut to the Jase’ to break down the franchise’s up and down season in NBL26.<\/p>\n

From shutting down criticism of coach Stu Lash<\/a>, to addressing supposed ’emergency meetings’, injuries to key players, his own career-best form and his belief in how the current Bullets roster can still achieve something special – nothing was off limits as Prather joined the basketball.com.au <\/a>podcast ahead of the team’s Sunshine Stoush clash with the Cairns Taipans<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old forward, who started his career with the Perth Wildcats<\/a> for the 2015-16 season, is averaging career-high stats of 24.3 points per game along with 6.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists in eight games in NBL26 for the Bullets.<\/p>\n

Having won three championships in a row from 2016-2018 with the Wildcats and Melbourne United<\/a>, Prather also starred in Europe as the Israeli League MVP in 2021 before several knee injuries almost brought an end to his decorated career.<\/p>\n

Prather opens up about how he almost hung up the boots before a call from then Bullets coach Justin Schueller turned everything around.<\/p>\n

The former Florida Gators college basketball standout then returned to Australia for the second half of the 2023-24 season before spending the entire offseason getting his body right in Australia, leading to an NBL25 season where he earned All-NBL Second Team honours.<\/p>\n

Prather also gives an update on his application to become an Australian resident, much like five-time NBL MVP Bryce Cotton did recently.<\/p>\n

With Australian NBA star Josh Giddey<\/a> being coached by Prather’s former Gators coach in Billy Donovan, he also speaks about what makes the Hall of Fame coach special.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/OTHER TOPICS ON CUT TO THE JASE EPISODE 7Cadee speaks about the Aussies in the NBA after opening weekGives his JC5 points in 5 minutes from the NBL, including what’s going on with the Sydney Kings?Cadee and co-host Brayden Heslehurst give their tips for Round 7CUT TO THE JASE EPISODES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three-time NBL champion opens up about the controversies surrounding the Bullets in NBL26 Casey Prather is averaging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-248007","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\/248007","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=248007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}