{"id":752411,"date":"2026-06-22T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:37:12","slug":"nbl-talents-step-up-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752411\/","title":{"rendered":"NBL talents step up in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBL young guns Reyne Smith and Jacob Holt played key roles as an Australian Select team played China in a friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Taipans\u2019 guard Smith had 14 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, while Brisbane big man Holt finished with 12 points and 3 rebounds in an 81-91 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The game also marked a key milestone for Adelaide\u2019s Ben Griscti, having suffered a serious injury in the pre-season last year and returning via the NBL1 recently.<\/p>\n<p>Emmett Adair top scored for Australia with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese tour concludes on Monday night with a clash against the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was impressed with the way the guys went out and competed. They never backed down in a hostile environment and played the right way for 40 minutes,\u201d coach Luke Brennan said.<\/p>\n<p>Australian squad<\/p>\n<p>Emmett Adair<br \/>Biwali Bayles<br \/>Sam Brown<br \/>Kuai Deng<br \/>Daniel Foster<br \/>Ben Griscti<br \/>Jacob Holt<br \/>William Johnston<br \/>Harry Rouhliadeff<br \/>Reyne Smith<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782113832_539_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBL young guns Reyne Smith and Jacob Holt played key roles as an Australian Select team played China&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-752411","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\/752411","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=752411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}