{"id":463078,"date":"2026-02-06T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463078\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:46:10","slug":"nba-news-2026-late-dual-transfer-no-issue-for-australias-jock-landale-in-statement-debut-atlanta-hawks-v-utah-jazz-result-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463078\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA news 2026 | Late dual transfer no issue for Australia’s Jock Landale in statement debut; Atlanta Hawks v Utah Jazz result, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s Jock Landale matched his season high with 26 points in his Atlanta Hawks<\/a> debut and Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 23, including the game-winning basket with 1.3 seconds left, helping the team defeat the visiting Utah Jazz<\/a> 121-119 on Friday (AEDT).<\/p>\n

Landale was traded from the Grizzlies to the Jazz, then in a transfer twist was acquired by the Hawks. He flew from Memphis to Atlanta for the Friday morning shootaround and was in the Hawks’ starting line-up later that day.<\/p>\n

He shot 10 for 14 from the field, tied his season high with 11 rebounds, matched his career high with five assists and had a season-best four blocked shots.<\/p>\n

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Reflecting on the whirlwind movement in the trade window and taking to the court so soon, Landale admitted he was excited to be back playing some “exciting basketball<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

“I was actually sitting on a plane getting ready to go to Utah and I got the call saying, ‘Get off the damn plane’,” he said post-match.<\/p>\n

\"Jock<\/p>\n

Jock Landale of the Atlanta Hawks sets up a shot.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“The option was to fly in this morning or drive last night. I thought I’d come here, get a good night’s sleep, see the boys, work out this morning and just get acclimatised.<\/p>\n

“I’m just glad to be here, man, glad to be playing some basketball.<\/p>\n

“A lot of fun. Happy to get the dub [the win]. Good group of boys to play with, a lot of athletes out there. So it’s exciting basketball.”<\/p>\n

With the game tied at 119-119 after Utah’s Ace Bailey made a three-pointer with 10.3 seconds remaining, Alexander-Walker dropped in the go-ahead hoop, which rattled on the rim before falling in. Bailey’s contested three-point attempt at the buzzer was no good.<\/p>\n

Atlanta also got 22 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists from Jalen Johnson, his 10th triple-double of the season.<\/p>\n

Corey Kispert came off the bench to score 20 as the Hawks won their second game in a row.<\/p>\n

Utah was led by Isaiah Collier, who scored a career-high 25 points while adding seven rebounds and 11 assists. Collier played 48 minutes for the second straight game.<\/p>\n

\"Dyson<\/p>\n

Dyson Daniels dribbles the ball in front of Jock Landale.\u00a0NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Bailey didn’t score in the first quarter but finished with 20 points. Lauri Markkanen and Brice Sensabaugh each scored 18.<\/p>\n

The win gave Atlanta a sweep of the two-game season series. The Hawks have won four straight against the Jazz.<\/p>\n

There were five ties and nine lead changes in the first quarter, which ended with Utah up 31-30 behind Kyle Filipowski’s 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Jazz ran off nine unanswered points midway through the second period to take a 12-point lead, only to have Atlanta outscore them 18-5 and go up 61-60 entering half-time after a late lay-up from Alexander-Walker.<\/p>\n

Atlanta had a five-point lead early in the third quarter, but Utah rode a 10-point quarter from Bailey to overtake the Hawks and lead 96-92.<\/p>\n

Landale’s effort was needed since starter Onyeka Okongwu missed his fourth game since undergoing dental surgery following a nasty elbow in the mouth against the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n

Atlanta’s other acquisitions – Jonathan Kuminga, Buddy Hield and Gabe Vincent – had not yet joined the team. The Hawks waived N’Faly Dante and Duop Reath.<\/p>\n

Utah’s Keyonte George (left ankle sprain) and Kevin Love (illness) did not play.<\/p>\n

The newly acquired Chris Boucher, Jaren Jackson Jr, John Konchar and Vince Williams Jr had not joined the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s Jock Landale matched his season high with 26 points in his Atlanta Hawks debut and Nickeil Alexander-Walker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-463078","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\/463078","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=463078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}