{"id":44982,"date":"2025-08-05T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44982\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:21:12","slug":"hawks-make-big-bold-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks make big, Bold move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illawarra Hawks have reportedly bolstered their frontcourt, securing experienced big man Jonah Bolden, according to ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc.<\/p>\n<p>Bolden spent last season with the New Zealand Breakers, having come out of retirement the year prior to join the Sydney Kings.<\/p>\n<p>Before returning to Australia, Bolden was a key part of the Philadelphia 76ers\u2019 roster across two seasons. <\/p>\n<p>Now 29, he\u2019s played 52 NBL games, averaging 7.3 points and 6.1 rebounds across his career.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754385672_390_687451e40ce51cb263571662_681e823466fb3c3c5ee8dd7a_a6e0d0a0-c9da-4bd4-bf10-ca5514573639.webp.webp\" alt=\"1920x250 (2)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Illawarra Hawks have reportedly bolstered their frontcourt, securing experienced big man Jonah Bolden, according to ESPN\u2019s Olgun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-44982","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\/44982","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=44982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}