{"id":805673,"date":"2026-07-17T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805673\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:58:10","slug":"report-phoenix-closing-in-on-sharpshooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805673\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Phoenix closing In on sharpshooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix are in advanced talks with 201-centimetre American forward D\u2019Shawn Schwartz, according to ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contract is not signed yet and I\u2019ll stress that. But an agreement is in place, this player has been committed for a couple of days &#8230; that player is D\u2019Shawn Schwartz,\u201d Uluc said on The Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Brown was almost entirely defensive-focused. D\u2019Shawn Schwartz is a sharpshooter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re bringing someone in who\u2019s going to stretch the floor, consistently shot the ball at a 40-ish per cent clip over his professional career. He shoots a lot of threes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz most recently played for the Rostock Seawolves in Germany, averaging 13.5 points and 5.9 rebounds during the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode of The Marketplace, available on the NBL website and app on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">D\u2019Shawn Schwartz &#8211; a 6\u20197 American forward &#8211; is in advanced talks on a deal with the South East Melbourne Phoenix, sources told ESPN. Schwartz last played for Rostock in Germany; he averaged 14.0 ppg (39% 3PT, on 6.0 3PA) and 6.0 rpg.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/2077941209788780982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 17, 2026<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.website-files.com\/64a50350adad23f0f1ef8f43\/69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article%20Banner_1920x250%20(1).avif\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix are in advanced talks with 201-centimetre American forward D\u2019Shawn Schwartz, according to ESPN\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-805673","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\/805673","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=805673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}