{"id":39376,"date":"2025-08-02T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39376\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T06:37:08","slug":"javon-freeman-liberty-signs-with-brisbane-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39376\/","title":{"rendered":"Javon Freeman-Liberty Signs With Brisbane Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/freemja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Javon Freeman-Liberty<\/a> has joined the Brisbane Bullets in Australia\u2019s NBL, reports ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc (via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1951172332434891205\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>). He will head overseas on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman-Liberty played 22 games for the Raptors in the 2023\/24 season, averaging 7.0 points and 3.2 rebounds in 18.3 minutes per night. He spent last year with the Windy City Bulls G League team, where he averaged 19.2 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 3.7 assists while shooting 35.6% from three on 7.9 attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20194\u2033, 25-year-old guard is coming off a strong Summer League with the Bulls that saw him average 21 points, six rebounds, and 3.4 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Bullets came in eighth in the NBL last season out of 10 teams and are hoping that the addition of Freeman-Liberty can help boost them up the standings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo add a talent of Javon\u2019s caliber to our roster at this stage is really exciting,\u201d said head coach Stu Lash, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nbl.com.au\/news\/bullets-add-more-star-power-for-nbl26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBL website<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s a hungry player who\u2019s ready to take the next step in his development as a professional. His toughness, ferocity, and willingness to compete make him a natural fit for what we value at the Brisbane Bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Javon Freeman-Liberty has joined the Brisbane Bullets in Australia\u2019s NBL, reports ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc (via Twitter). He will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,35061,85],"class_list":["post-39376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-javon-freeman-liberty","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39376","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=39376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}