{"id":552690,"date":"2026-03-20T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552690\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:29:11","slug":"36ers-re-sign-key-big-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552690\/","title":{"rendered":"36ers re-sign key big man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adelaide 36ers have received a huge boost on the eve of their highly anticipated Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 Championship Series with Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/adelaide-36ers-target-joe-ingles-in-potential-1-million-nbl-homecoming\/news-story\/a45dfc7176efc40872089d418d93eb25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CODE Sports<\/a>, big man Nick Rakocevic is set to re-sign with the Adelaide 36ers until the end of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Rakocevic, who is averaging 8.9 points and 6.5 rebounds a game, has become a key piece of Mike Wells\u2019 bench unit, especially during the team\u2019s post-season run.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/finals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Finals schedule, tickets &amp; how to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the deal is done, Rakocevic will join Bryce Cotton, Zylan Cheatham, Flynn Cameron, Isaac Humphries, Dejan Vasiljevic, Isaac White, Ben Griscti and Michael Harrus (mutual option) under contract for the Sixers next season.<\/p>\n<p>The NBL26 Championships Series, between Sydney and Adelaide, tips off at Qudos Bank Arena on Saturday at 7pm AEDT, live on ESPN and 10 Drama.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/adelaide-36ers-target-joe-ingles-in-potential-1-million-nbl-homecoming\/news-story\/a45dfc7176efc40872089d418d93eb25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide 36ers target Joe Ingles in potential $1 million NBL homecoming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774006151_707_69ba3d951d002ba2b025a249_NBL26 Finals_Champs_Article Banner_1290x250.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Adelaide 36ers have received a huge boost on the eve of their highly anticipated Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-552690","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\/552690","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=552690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}