{"id":419158,"date":"2026-01-17T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:25:13","slug":"phoenix-lose-superstar-for-sunday-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419158\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix lose superstar for Sunday blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star MVP candidate Nathan Sobey will miss his team\u2019s top-of-the-table clash against Adelaide on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix confirmed the news on Saturday via their social media channels, announcing Sobey would be out due to illness. <\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has been in a rare vein of form in NBL26, averaging 22.8 points a game, including at least 24 in the last five games.<\/p>\n<p>He looms as a huge loss for the second-placed Phoenix, who currently have three games to make up on the ladder-leading 36ers.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsfest.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BUY HOOPSFEST TICKETS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adelaide and South East Melbourne face off on Sunday at 2.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN and 10.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696810544c3525aaec836c13_Disney+_1920x250_V1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star MVP candidate Nathan Sobey will miss his team\u2019s top-of-the-table clash against Adelaide on Sunday. The Phoenix confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-419158","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\/419158","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=419158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}