{"id":667176,"date":"2026-05-13T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667176\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:21:09","slug":"lauren-jackson-on-the-nba-rising-stars-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667176\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Jackson on the NBA Rising Stars Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!6I72!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b6a2c52-dfc3-452d-8770-a77db6e10fae_6259x4173.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/2b6a2c52-dfc3-452d-8770-a77db6e10fae_6259.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"971\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/2b6a2c52-dfc3-452d-8770-a77db6e10fae_6259x4173.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:5950922,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/pickandroll.com.au\/i\/197195228?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b6a2c52-dfc3-452d-8770-a77db6e10fae_6259x4173.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NBA Asia \/ Eric Teo<\/p>\n<p>Last year, some of the best young basketball talent across Asia-Pacific competed at the inaugural NBA Rising Stars International in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the event expanded, with Melbourne, Bangkok, Taipei and Tokyo all hosting qualifying tournaments for the Singapore tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Australian basketball legend Lauren Jackson was on hand to watch the Melbourne leg, which took place at the State Basketball Centre from May 8 to 10. Eight boys\u2019 school teams and five girls\u2019 teams competed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving the NBA brand out here and being exposed to the way that the NBA does things, that\u2019s a really exciting thing, and something the kids won\u2019t ever forget,\u201d Jackson told The Pick and Roll from courtside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: NBA Asia \/ Eric Teo Last year, some of the best young basketball talent across Asia-Pacific&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-667176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667176","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=667176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}