{"id":481626,"date":"2026-02-15T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:08:16","slug":"major-setback-for-wildcats-in-top-four-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481626\/","title":{"rendered":"Major setback for Wildcats in top four race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if coming up against a team that\u2019s won 15 of its past 17 games wasn\u2019t tough enough, the Perth Wildcats will now have to do it without two of their most important players. <\/p>\n<p>Dylan Windler has been ruled out of Sunday\u2019s clash against Sydney with a heel injury, joining Ben Henshall (ankle) on the sidelines for a vital game with huge Finals implications. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats are in a race for a top four spot, currently a game clear of Melbourne United with two fixtures remaining. <\/p>\n<p>A loss to the Kings would put Perth in a precarious position going into its final fixture of the regular season against Adelaide on Friday night. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/ladder-predictor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PLAY THE MITSUBISHI MOTORS LADDER PREDICTOR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sydney hosts the Wildcats on Sunday afternoon at Qudos Bank Arena, live on ESPN and 10 Drama from 4.30pm AEDT.<\/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":"As if coming up against a team that\u2019s won 15 of its past 17 games wasn\u2019t tough enough,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-481626","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\/481626","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=481626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}