{"id":75856,"date":"2025-08-17T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75856\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:51:09","slug":"boomers-results-australia-defeats-china-in-final-three-peat-video-highlights-basketball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75856\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomers results, Australia defeats China in final, three-peat, video, highlights, basketball news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boomers ave won a thrilling FIBA Asia Cup final against China by one point to secure a three-peat of titles, becoming just the second nation to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, at one stage trailing by 15 points, sealed a dramatic 90-89 victory at Jeddah\u2019s King Abdullah Sports City on Sunday, with the game-winning buzzer-beater from China\u2019s Hu Mingxuan bouncing off the rim.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-time champions got off to a flying start, leading 25-17 at quarter-time before extending that lead to 15 points ahead in the second term. However, the Boomers closed the gap before half-time and edged ahead in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The lead was exchanged 19 times across the nerve-shredding contest, with the Boomers holding a one-point advantage heading into the final seconds before Mingxuan\u2019s decisive miss from beyond the arc prompted scenes of jubilation for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Watch live coverage of The FIBA Asia Cup 2025 with ESPN on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-bkb-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Xavier Cooks of Australia. Photo by Liu Lu\/VCG via Getty Images\" attribution=\"test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/691a01e396daa49a84697a2321027183.jpeg\" \/>Xavier Cooks of Australia. Photo by Liu Lu\/VCG via Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Cooks, later named player of the match, scored a game-high 30 points on 13-of-17 shooting alongside nine rebounds, while tournament MVP Jaylin Galloway nailed six triples. Elsewhere, William Hickey contributed 15 points, seven rebounds, four assists and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>For China, Mingxuan scored a team-high 26 points with five three-pointers, while veteran Hu Jinqiu added 20 points and ten rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Australia now boasts a perfect 18-0 FIBA Asia Cup record since joining the competition in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Iran defeated New Zealand in the bronze-medal match 79-73 to claim third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boomers ave won a thrilling FIBA Asia Cup final against China by one point to secure a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-75856","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\/75856","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=75856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}