{"id":611757,"date":"2026-04-16T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:48:09","slug":"36ers-star-guard-could-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611757\/","title":{"rendered":"36ers, star guard could part ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adelaide 36ers are reportedly progressing toward a parting of ways with guard Dejan Vasiljevic.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc, the Sixers, fresh off an appearance in the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 Championship Series, are working with sharpshooter Vasiljevic on a release from his contract, which ran until the end of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Vasiljevic started his NBL career with the Sydney Kings, helping them win two championships across three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old then spent three seasons in the City of Churches, playing a key role in the Sixers reaching their first Championship Series since 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>Across his six seasons in the NBL, Vasiljevic has posted averages of 14.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 179 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>If Vasiljevic does on fact leave Adelaide, it leaves six-time MVP Bryce Cotton, Zylan Cheatham, Flynn Cameron, Isaac Humphries, Isaac White, and Ben Griscti as contracted players on Mike Wells&#8217; roster for next season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/nbl27-free-agency-goes-live-this-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch The Marketplace live on Day 1 of Free Agency<\/a> this Friday from 8:30am AEST.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776383289_717_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Adelaide 36ers are reportedly progressing toward a parting of ways with guard Dejan Vasiljevic. According to ESPN\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-611757","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\/611757","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=611757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}