{"id":3486,"date":"2025-07-18T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3486\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:44:13","slug":"nbl-roman-siulepa-agree-to-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3486\/","title":{"rendered":"NBL, Roman Siulepa agree to part ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL and Roman Siulepa have mutually agreed to a contract release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Australian forward has committed to the University of Pittsburgh and will continue his journey in college basketball, as reported by ESPN and DraftExpress\u2019 Jonathan Givony earlier today.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: Australian forward Roman Siulepa has enrolled at Pitt, Daniel Moldovan of Lighthouse Sports told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Siulepa had an explosive showing at the FIBA U19 World Cup, posting 18.9 points, 8.1 rebounds in 29 minutes per game, leading the event in free throw attempts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4OSJx8h2LW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4OSJx8h2LW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1946026650203726330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Siulepa, who was initially signed as a Next Star for the Tasmania JackJumpers for NBL25,\u00a0parted ways with the club in August last year, ahead of the start of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He represented the NBL Next Stars team at the Adidas EuroCamp last month and played well for the Emus at the recent FIBA U19 World Cup, where he was named to the All-Tournament Second Team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish Roman all the best as he embarks on this next chapter of his basketball journey, and look forward to supporting him throughout his career moving forward,\u201d General Manager of Next Stars Recruitment, Liam Santamaria said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/687451e40ce51cb263571662_681e823466fb3c3c5ee8dd7a_a6e0d0a0-c9da-4bd4-bf10-ca5514573639.jpeg\" alt=\"1920x250 (2)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL and Roman Siulepa have mutually agreed to a contract release.\u00a0 The Australian forward has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","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=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}