{"id":46375,"date":"2025-08-05T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46375\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:43:12","slug":"jack-mcveigh-signs-with-cairns-taipans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46375\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack McVeigh Signs With Cairns Taipans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the 2024\/25 season on a two-way contract with the Rockets, Australian forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcveija01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-05_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack McVeigh<\/a> is heading back to his home country, having signed a two-year contract with the Cairns Taipans, according to an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taipans.com\/news\/mcveigh-returns-to-the-nbl-chooses-cairns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announcement from the team<\/a>. The second year of the deal is a mutual option.<\/p>\n<p>McVeigh, 29, competed for several seasons in Australia\u2019s National Basketball League before making the leap to the NBA last summer. He appeared in just nine games for Houston as a rookie in 2024\/25, but was a featured player for the Rockets\u2019 G League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, making 34 total appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p>McVeigh averaged 16.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.5 assists in 30.7 minutes per game for the Vipers, posting a shooting line of .440\/.370\/.875.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20198\u2033 forward remained stateside in July and suited up for Atlanta\u2019s Summer League squad, posting solid averages of 14.0 PPG and 2.5 RPG on .588\/.455\/1.000 shooting across four outings (22.8 MPG). <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/jack-mcveigh-hopes-to-continue-nba-journey.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reporting over the weekend<\/a> indicated that he was hoping to parlay that performance into another NBA opportunity, but it appears no appealing offers materialized.<\/p>\n<p>McVeigh\u2019s new contract is worth $2MM over two seasons, making him the highest-paid player in Taipans history, per Olgun Uluc of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1952601588541079949\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1952607309525577912\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a>). As Uluc outlines, McVeigh will be one of the four highest earners in the NBL heading into the 2025\/26 season, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cottobr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-05_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Cotton<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/international\/players\/jo-lual-acuil-jr-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jo Lual-Acuil Jr.<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cooksxa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-05_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Xavier Cooks<\/a> as players who are making at least $1MM annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending the 2024\/25 season on a two-way contract with the Rockets, Australian forward Jack McVeigh is heading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,33014,36734,39978,85,39979],"class_list":{"0":"post-46375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bryce-cotton","12":"tag-jack-mcveigh","13":"tag-jo-lual-acuil-jr","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-xavier-cooks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46375","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=46375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}