{"id":37463,"date":"2025-08-01T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37463\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:46:11","slug":"phoenix-sign-g-league-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37463\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix sign G League champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix are reportedly set to sign 2024 NBA G League champion, Hunter Maldonado, according to ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc. <\/p>\n<p>Maldonado, a 26-year-old combo guard, won a championship with Oklahoma City Thunder&#8217;s G League affiliate team, Oklahoma City Blue. Prior to that, he played college basketball for the University of Wyoming. <\/p>\n<p>He last played in the German basketball league, Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), with the MHP Riesen Ludwigsberg. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/687451e40ce51cb263571662_681e823466fb3c3c5ee8dd7a_a6e0d0a0-c9da-4bd4-bf10-ca5514573639.jpeg\" alt=\"1920x250 (2)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix are reportedly set to sign 2024 NBA G League champion, Hunter Maldonado, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-37463","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\/37463","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=37463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}