{"id":625608,"date":"2026-04-23T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:39:08","slug":"nbl-icon-links-mills-to-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625608\/","title":{"rendered":"NBL icon links Mills to Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the talk of Patty Mills returning to the NBL continues, Australia&#8217;s greatest-ever player believes it looks closer than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time NBL MVP Andrew Gaze believes that Mills, who played games for Melbourne during the 2009-10 season, has selected a team for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little birdie has given me some information and it&#8217;s that Patty Mills, who\u2019s currently playing in Spain because he never got picked up in the NBA, next year he will be returning to the NBL [next year],\u201d Gaze said on SEN\u2019s The Run Home with Andy and Gazey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat birdie, who is a reliable source, said that he&#8217;ll be playing for the Brisbane Bullets next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Of all the teams] the Brisbane Bullets seem to be the hottest [on Mills].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This contradicts the report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/report-teams-circling-aussie-hoops-icon-patty-mills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc about Mills and the Bullets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I was told, the Brisbane Bullets early in the piece made an offer to Patty Mills,\u201d Uluc said on The Marketplace, presented by Paywise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat has since been declined, and there is no more interest between either of those two parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uluc and NBL\u2019s Pete Hooley also discussed that the Perth Wildcats had an interest in the 1020-game NBA veteran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in a really long time, I&#8217;ve heard that Patty Mills is open to coming to the NBL,\u201d Uluc said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Perth Wildcats are a team that has discussed Patty&#8217;s name internally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;ve thought about the idea of bringing Patty Mills into the mix, and I think they&#8217;re preparing to reach out, show some interest in Patty Mills and see what he would look like as a Perth Wildcat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills, who helped the Australian Boomers win the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, is currently playing for La Laguna Tenerife in Spain\u2019s La Liga ACB.<\/p>\n<p>The Bullets have Sam McDaniel Tyrell Harrison, Jacob Holt, Mitch Norton, Tristan Devers and Taine Murray under contract next season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776944348_508_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the talk of Patty Mills returning to the NBL continues, Australia&#8217;s greatest-ever player believes it looks closer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-625608","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\/625608","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=625608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}