{"id":493714,"date":"2026-02-21T02:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493714\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:32:23","slug":"adelaide-superstar-sidelined-for-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493714\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide superstar sidelined for road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adelaide 36ers will head to Perth without their biggest star, with Bryce Cotton sidelined due to a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>The club confirmed the news on Friday, and will be hoping their marquee man is available to return for the Ignite Cup Final against New Zealand on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TEAM UPDATE \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Cotton (back soreness) will not play in tonight\u2019s game against the Perth Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>Nominated injury replacement player Blake Jones will suit up in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adelaide 36ers (@Adelaide36ers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adelaide36ers\/status\/2024669177576116706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 20, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Adelaide has already locked in its place in the top two and a berth in the Playoffs after South East Melbourne\u2019s loss to Melbourne on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36ers take on Perth on Friday night at 9:30pm 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 Adelaide 36ers will head to Perth without their biggest star, with Bryce Cotton sidelined due to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-493714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493714","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=493714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}