{"id":732349,"date":"2026-06-12T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732349\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:10:12","slug":"report-champions-sign-exciting-young-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732349\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Champions sign exciting young guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The busy off-season for Brian Goorjian\u2019s reigning champions has continued with the reported signing of exciting young Australian guard Jayden Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Sydney Kings and ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc announced the news on Friday, pending NBL approval.<\/p>\n<p>This move follows the Kings recently signing Championship Series MVP Kendric Davis, athletic wing Makuach Maluach and powerful big man Keli Leaupepe to new deals.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Soares (Japan), Bul Kuol (Adelaide) and Hunter Goodrick (South East Melbourne) have all departed the club.<\/p>\n<p>Perth talent Stone heads to the Harbour City after spending the past 10 years in the United States, including Sunrise Christian Academy and colleges Grand Canyon University, Detroit Mercy and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently with the Missouri Tigers, Stone averaged 13.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game across his 26 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Stone joins Davis, Xavier Cooks, Matthew Dellavedova, Jaylin Galloway, Makuach Maluach, Keli Leaupepe, Tyler Robertson and Jason Spurgin on the Kings\u2019 Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 roster.<\/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\/06\/1781287812_220_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The busy off-season for Brian Goorjian\u2019s reigning champions has continued with the reported signing of exciting young Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-732349","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\/732349","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=732349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}