{"id":624981,"date":"2026-04-23T04:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:26:15","slug":"match-made-in-heaven-star-praises-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624981\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Match made in heaven&#8221;: Star praises new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may have just won an NBL championship with the Sydney Kings, but Bul Kuol has already labelled his new home as a \u201cmatch made in heaven\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year NBL veteran, who has established himself as one of the League\u2019s top defenders, this week penned a two-year deal with the Adelaide 36ers.<\/p>\n<p>In his introductory video to the Sixers fans, the 2024 South Sudanese Olympian expressed how excited he was to play in the City of Churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, Sixers fans, this is Bul. I have to admit, Adelaide\u2019s always been my favourite place to play in,\u201d Kuol said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been in the league five years and it hasn&#8217;t changed one bit, and now I get to call it home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys are the most consistent, the most passionate, the most electrifying [fans], and it&#8217;s a match made in heaven because that&#8217;s the same energy I bring to the game, that same fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to getting to know all of you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s going be a process with me [due to my injury]. It\u2019s going to take time so I need you guys to be patient but know this, when the time comes man let&#8217;s just wait and see [the results].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kuol joins six-time MVP Bryce Cotton, Zylan Cheatham, Flynn Cameron, Isaac Humphries, Nick Rakocevic, Isaac White and Ben Griscti on Mike Wells\u2019 roster for the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 season.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/nbl26-free-agency-every-move-as-it-happens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free Agency Tracker: Rolling updates, signings and reported moves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776918375_602_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He may have just won an NBL championship with the Sydney Kings, but Bul Kuol has already labelled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-624981","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\/624981","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=624981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}