NBA prospect Ben Henshall has re-signed with the Perth Wildcats in a significant boost to the club’s NBL championship hopes.<\/p>\n
Henshall put himself on NBA scouts’ radars during a breakout campaign with the Wildcats last season, earning a nomination for the NBL’s most improved player award.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old West Australian initially nominated for the NBA draft but withdrew with an eye to bolstering his future prospects.<\/p>\n
“It is exciting to have Ben back while trusting us to help him chase his goal of the NBA,” Wildcats coach John Rillie said.<\/p>\n
“His shot-making and explosive scoring ability complements the other pieces on our roster.”<\/p>\n
Henshall will play for the Australian Boomers as they seek to claim a third straight FIBA Asia Cup title this month.<\/p>\n
The 195cm swingman will then turn his attention to helping the Wildcats launch another championship push following the messy departure of club legend Bryce Cotton.<\/p>\n
“Super excited to re-sign and continue my journey with Perth,” Henshall said.<\/p>\n
“Can’t wait to play in front of the Red Army again and chase that championship.”<\/p>\n
The Wildcats have managed to piece together a strong roster despite five-time NBL MVP Cotton leaving to join the Adelaide 36ers.<\/p>\n
US imports Kristian Doolittle and Dylan Windler have returned, while marquee centre Jo Lual-Acuil is a huge addition.<\/p>\n
Veteran forward Jesse Wagstaff, Sunday Dech and Elijah Pepper are also on the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA prospect Ben Henshall has re-signed with the Perth Wildcats in a significant boost to the club’s NBL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,33013,33014,9663,590,15056,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-36483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ben-henshall","11":"tag-bryce-cotton","12":"tag-championship","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-perth-wildcats","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36483","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=36483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}