{"id":602125,"date":"2026-04-12T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:34:12","slug":"big-roster-moves-on-eve-of-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602125\/","title":{"rendered":"Big roster moves on eve of Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the NBL27 Free Agency fast approaching, a number of teams have reportedly exercised options for the coming season.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc, both Tasmania\u2019s Ben Ayre (mutual) and Sydney\u2019s Tyler Robertson (team) have both had their options for the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 season opted in.<\/p>\n<p>Both guards were enjoying career-best seasons in NBL26 before injury ended their seasons prematurely.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While Robertson\u2019s Kings teammate Keli Leaupepe, who has a team option for next year, and the club are reportedly progressing on a new deal that would keep the forward contracted through the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne\u2019s Finn Delany (mutual), New Zealand\u2019s Taylor Britt (team), Illawarra&#8217;s Harry Froling (team), South East Melbourne\u2019s DJ Mitchell and Brisbane\u2019s Jensen Bradtke all won\u2019t have their deals exercised for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Teams have until Monday to opt in or out of their options, ahead of Free Agency tipping off on Friday, April 17 at 9am AEST.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finn Delany\u2019s mutual option with Melbourne United has not been picked up, sources told ESPN. The Kiwi forward is assessing his market outside the NBL; I\u2019m told he has his eye on a return to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/2043182104050356373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776000852_617_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the NBL27 Free Agency fast approaching, a number of teams have reportedly exercised options for the coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602125","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=602125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}