{"id":537002,"date":"2026-03-13T04:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537002\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:19:14","slug":"nba-calling-for-kings-star-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537002\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA calling for Kings star Craig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney star Torrey Craig looks primed for a return to the NBA, but not before helping the Kings realise their Championship goals.<\/p>\n<p>Already a veteran of more than 500 NBA games, Craig has revealed he and his management are in talks for a post-season move back to the States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking to some NBA teams right now,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/nbl-coaching-landscape-poised-for-shakeup-with-trevor-gleeson-keen-to-return-to-australia\/news-story\/16b8f04d0b454c6302410eaeba32262e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Craig told CODE Sports<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the reason why I came here to Sydney was to showcase playing good basketball at this age and to show that I can still play in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for now I\u2019m focused on the Kings first and whatever comes after that, comes after that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to make sure that we win a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Craig was one of the Kings\u2019 best in their Game 1 victory over the Wildcats, scoring 20 points to go with 9 rebounds and 3 assists. <\/p>\n<p>Sydney travels to Perth on Saturday night for Game 2 of the Playoff Series, with tip-off from 8pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here &gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/nbl-coaching-landscape-poised-for-shakeup-with-trevor-gleeson-keen-to-return-to-australia\/news-story\/16b8f04d0b454c6302410eaeba32262e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Craig poised for return<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773375554_299_699cf5b7327f19300623040a_NBL26 Finals_1920x250.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney star Torrey Craig looks primed for a return to the NBA, but not before helping the Kings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-537002","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\/537002","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=537002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}