{"id":336259,"date":"2025-12-09T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336259\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:01:08","slug":"nba-aussie-alex-toohey-waived-by-the-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336259\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Aussie Alex Toohey waived by the Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Requiring season-ending knee surgery, Australian young gun Alex Toohey<\/a> has been cut by Golden State, who took him with their top 2025 NBA draft pick.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old forward, who played in the NBL with the Sydney Kings, has made way for the Warriors to sign former Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> tall Malevy Leons.<\/p>\n

Starting 25 of 29 games, Toohey claimed the NBL Next Generation Award after a stellar 2024\/25 season.<\/p>\n

Alex Toohey was waived by the Golden State Warriors.\u00a0Ethan Miller\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He averaged 10.6 points and 1.4 steals per game as the Kings bowed out in the play-in tournament with a loss to Adelaide.<\/p>\n

The Canberra product was selected No.52 overall and was part of the massive seven-team trade that saw Kevin Durant<\/a> go to the Houston Rockets<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n

Lauded for his basketball IQ and passing game, two-metre tall Toohey never really got the chance to showcase his ability.<\/p>\n

He missed all of pre-season with the left knee injury and suited up for only two games, averaging seven points and three rebounds for Golden State’s G League affiliate Santa Cruz Warriors.<\/p>\n

Toohey was one of four Australians taken in the second round of this year’s draft, alongside Cleveland’s Tyrese Proctor<\/a>, Minnesota’s Rocco Zikarsky<\/a> and Chicago’s Lachlan Olbrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Signing Levy to a two-way contract, the Dutch forward has spent the past two seasons with Oklahoma City, primarily playing for the OKC Blue in the G League.<\/p>\n

Leons also appeared in six games for the Thunder during their 2024-25 championship season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Requiring season-ending knee surgery, Australian young gun Alex Toohey has been cut by Golden State, who took him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-336259","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\/336259","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=336259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}