{"id":319510,"date":"2025-11-30T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319510\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:49:09","slug":"hawks-champion-makes-nba-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319510\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks champion makes NBA debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lachlan Olbrich is the latest Australian to make his NBA debut.<\/p>\n<p>The NBL25 championship winner hit the court in the Chicago Bulls&#8217; fixture with the Indiana Pacers at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>In the 103-101 defeat, Olbrich, who was drafted with the 55th selection in the 2025 NBA Draft by the Bulls, tallied two points and three rebounds, with his first points coming off a pass from former Adelaide 36ers NBL Next Star, Josh Giddey.<\/p>\n<p>This debut, which is the first for any NBL alum this season, came off the back of strong form by the big man in the NBA G-League with the Windy City Bulls, including posting a recent triple-double last week against Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n<p>The only other Australian to debut this NBA season is Sydney product Tyrese Proctor, who has played 16 games for Cleveland this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls next face Orlando on Tuesday morning at 11.30am AEDT.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764546549_395_690bcc0056be21e70a98dcf8_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lachlan Olbrich is the latest Australian to make his NBA debut. The NBL25 championship winner hit the court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-319510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319510","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=319510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}