45th pick in the 2025 draft<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe’s averaged 14.9 points, 9.4 rebounds, and 1.2 assists in 25.4 minutes, shooting 53.0% from the field and an impressive 87.9% at the free-throw line. His scoring, unsurprisingly leans heavily on paint touches and rim finishes, but he also showed early stretch indicators, attempting nearly three threes per game.<\/p>\n
Zikarsky started 13 of 16 games, producing 15.7 points and 10.2 rebounds as a starter, compared with 11.7 points and 6.0 rebounds off the bench. His impact scaled cleanly with minutes, reinforcing his viability as a rotation big rather than a developmental cameo.<\/p>\n
As part of a video at the Next Up event for NBA\u00a0Australia, the Brisbane product commented about his excitement to be at the game.<\/p>\n
“G League Next Up game’s going on behind me, I’m playing next game, it’s been awesome,” he told NBA\u00a0Australia.<\/p>\n
“It’s been an awesome weekend, fun, packed. I went to the Intuit Dome a couple of days ago, which was unreal.<\/p>\n
“It’s really exciting to be picked up and being up here, it’s almost a dream come true and hopefully there’s more to it over the coming years but super grateful to be here and excited to see what I can showcase on the floor.”<\/p>\n
Playing for Team Blue, alongside the likes of former Detroit Pistons lottery pick Killian Hayes, Zikarsky was a standout and provided several highlights throughout the event, which was won by Team Black with James Akinjo taking home the MVP.<\/p>\n
After an impressive G League season so far, Zikarsky could see some minutes and an NBA\u00a0debut for the Timberwolves as the team closes the regular season and heads into the playoffs in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NBL Next Star Rocco Zikarsky continues to make waves in rookie season with the Iowa Wolves Aside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-487437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487437","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=487437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}