{"id":49583,"date":"2025-08-07T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49583\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:00:19","slug":"taipans-next-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49583\/","title":{"rendered":"Taipans&#8217; next target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the news of NBL champion Jack McVeigh was brought to the attention to Cairns fans to reportedly sign with the club, the Taipans are now apparently in &#8216;advanced talks&#8217; with former NBA player Admiral Schofield as their next target. <\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc, the club is working on signing the 6&#8217;5&#8243; forward for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Admiral Schofield &#8211; a 6\u20195 American forward &#8211; is in advanced talks on a deal with the Cairns Taipans, sources told ESPN. He played four seasons in the NBA, and is coming off a stint with ASVEL in France, where he averaged 6.9 ppg (50% 3PT, on 3.5 3PA) and 2.0 rpg.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1952863651909820507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 5, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Schofield has had appearances in the NBA with the Washington Wizards and Orlando Magic with their G League affiliate clubs Capital city Go-Go and Lakeland Magic. <\/p>\n<p>He most recently played for French professional basketball team, LDLC ASVEL, in the LNB \u00c9lite league. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/688ee102b846a0e60d042213_687451e40ce51cb263571662_681e823466fb3c3c5ee8dd7a_a6e0d0a0-c9da-4bd4-bf10-c.jpeg\" alt=\"1920x250 (2)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the news of NBL champion Jack McVeigh was brought to the attention to Cairns fans to reportedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-49583","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\/49583","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=49583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}