{"id":460400,"date":"2026-02-05T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460400\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:29:15","slug":"star-bullet-ruled-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460400\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Bullet ruled out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brisbane Bullets announced on Thursday they will be without star guard Javon Freeman-Liberty for the remainder of the season, due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman-Liberty, who has made nine appearances for the Bullets this season, sustained the injury during Round 15\u2019s loss to Perth.<\/p>\n<p>The American joins Casey Prather (knee) and Lamar Patterson (hamstring) on the season-long injury list, with Dakota Mathias (shoulder), Sam McDaniel (calf) and Tyrell Harrison (concussion) also out for the Bullets.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Ducas will suit up for our game against Tasmania JackJumpers on Friday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Terry Taylor will miss the game through suspension. <\/p>\n<p>Javon Freeman-Liberty has been ruled out for the remainder of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yAhsPW4NdV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/yAhsPW4NdV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brisbane Bullets (@BrisbaneBullets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrisbaneBullets\/status\/2019230005931163946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 5, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Darryl McDonald\u2019s side will also be without the suspended Terry Taylor for Friday\u2019s clash with Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>In better news for the Bullets, young gun Alex Ducas will return to the lineup for the Round 20 clash at MyState Bank Arena.<\/p>\n<p>That fixture tips off at 7.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/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\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Bullets announced on Thursday they will be without star guard Javon Freeman-Liberty for the remainder of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-460400","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\/460400","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=460400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}