{"id":52915,"date":"2025-08-08T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52915\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:53:09","slug":"breakers-add-euroleague-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52915\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakers add EuroLeague talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Breakers have completed their off-season signings by adding 6&#8217;11&#8217; forward Rob Baker II to their NBL26 roster.<\/p>\n<p>Baker II, 27-year-old American-born, has had international basketball experience, last playing in the EuroLeague for Alba Berlin, and has appeared in Japan&#8217;s B League, and the Slovakian Basketball League (SBL).<\/p>\n<p>He has also appeared on the Orlando Magic&#8217;s G League affiliate team, Lakeland\/Osceola Magic, and the Atlanta Hawks&#8217; College Park Skyhawks. <\/p>\n<p>Baker II will join Izaiah Brockington, Izayah Le&#8217;Afa, Rob Loe, and Reuben Te Rangi as part of the club&#8217;s NBL26 signings. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754385672_390_687451e40ce51cb263571662_681e823466fb3c3c5ee8dd7a_a6e0d0a0-c9da-4bd4-bf10-ca5514573639.webp.webp\" alt=\"1920x250 (2)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Breakers have completed their off-season signings by adding 6&#8217;11&#8217; forward Rob Baker II to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-52915","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\/52915","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=52915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}