{"id":372633,"date":"2025-12-26T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372633\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:44:09","slug":"phoenix-guard-signs-with-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372633\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix guard signs with Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brisbane Bullets are reportedly signing former South East Melbourne guard Hunter Maldonado for the remainder of the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL26 season.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc, the Americanwas recently released by the Phoenix and has since penned a deal with the Bullets.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hunter Maldonado has agreed to a deal with the Brisbane Bullets for the remainder of the 2025-26 NBL season, sources told ESPN. The 6\u20196 American guard was recently released from the SEM Phoenix, where he averaged 8.9 ppg and 4.3 apg in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/2004425063207260488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 26, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>During his 16 appearances with the Heartland club, the University of Wyoming alum averaged 8.9 points, 4.3 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-14 Bullets host the 14-7 Melbourne United on Saturday night at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre from 7.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766738649_333_690bcc0056be21e70a98dcf8_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Bullets are reportedly signing former South East Melbourne guard Hunter Maldonado for the remainder of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-372633","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\/372633","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=372633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}