{"id":290024,"date":"2025-11-17T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:47:11","slug":"import-set-for-brisbane-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290024\/","title":{"rendered":"Import set for Brisbane return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just six weeks after leaving the Brisbane Bullets, it is reported that star import Javon Freeman-Liberty is set for a return to the club.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/brisbane-bullets-bring-back-import-javon-freemanliberty-in-bombshell-roster-decision\/news-story\/879893589bebec437ae7e16ecd055051\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CODE Sports&#8217; Michael Randall<\/a>, Freeman-Liberty, who was granted a mutual release in October, will sign with Brisbane as an injury replacement for the rest of the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL26 season.<\/p>\n<p>This comes less than a week after the Bullets lost Casey Prather (knee) and Jaylen Adams (release).<\/p>\n<p>CODE Sports reports that 26-year-old Freeman-Liberty contacted individual players, including captain Mitch Norton, to explain his situation and ask if they would welcome him back. Those calls were suggested to be met with open arms.<\/p>\n<p>US guard Freeman-Liberty, who averaged 19 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds during his two appearances this season, would join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/report-g-league-champion-headed-to-brisbane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported signing Terry Taylor<\/a> on Stu Lash&#8217;s roster for the remainder of the 2025-16 season.<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane, who are 5-9 on the season, host South East Melbourne on Thursday from 7.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/brisbane-bullets-bring-back-import-javon-freemanliberty-in-bombshell-roster-decision\/news-story\/879893589bebec437ae7e16ecd055051\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Bullets bring back import Javon Freeman-Liberty in bombshell roster decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763369231_546_690bcc0056be21e70a98dcf8_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just six weeks after leaving the Brisbane Bullets, it is reported that star import Javon Freeman-Liberty is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-290024","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\/290024","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=290024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}