{"id":830541,"date":"2026-07-29T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830541\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:55:15","slug":"bullets-farewell-three-time-nbl-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830541\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullets farewell three-time NBL champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Prather&#8217;s tenure in Brisbane is officially over, after the club thanked the star for his services on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time NBL champion played three seasons with the Brisbane Bullets, including being named to the All-NBL Second Team during the 2024-25 Season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom all the moments on the floor to the tremendous impact off it,\u201d the Bullets said in a statement. \u201cThank you for everything you have given the Bullets and the Brisbane community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude4f From all the moments on the floor to the tremendous impact off it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for everything you have given the Bullets and the Brisbane community, Casey \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D80rMHzMWD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/D80rMHzMWD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brisbane Bullets (@BrisbaneBullets) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrisbaneBullets\/status\/2082263711784239314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 29, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This message comes after the Bullets locked in their third and final import on Wednesday morning, announcing Jaylin Williams has joined the club on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The US forward joins Nate Hinton and Arnas Veli\u010dka as imports on Will Weaver\u2019s side for the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 Season.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of what\u2019s next for the 2016-17 All-NBL First Team selection, ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc explained that there is still reported interest for the forward around the League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I speak to teams, there are some teams who bring up his name, of course,\u201d Uluc said on NBL Marketplace, presented by Paywise, last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a high-level scorer, shooter in the NBL. He\u2019s a good teammate; he knows the league \u2026 all these things absolutely matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s whether teams opt to go in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo they go younger? Do they go for a different need potentially? These are all the things that teams are considering.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Uluc could also see a world where the 35-year-old is a mid-season signing for a club, which paid dividends for clubs like Sydney, Adelaide and South East Melbourne with Torrey Craig, John Jenkins and Ian Clark last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m curious, if let\u2019s say he doesn\u2019t get a gig \u2026 he enjoys being in Australia, does he hang around and maybe he is an Ian Clark type?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan he join a team in the middle of a season?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark, who most recently played for the South East Melbourne Phoenix, has joined NBL teams mid-season in recent years to strengthen their championship pushes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a team cuts an import, which we saw numerous times last season, can Casey Prather be there for you to swoop up?\u201d Uluc continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf come December you need to make a change for one reason or another &#8230; you have someone there who is super functional as an offensive player in the NBL, someone who knows the league and there\u2019s no onboarding with someone like Casey Prather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at Casey Prather as the ultimate mid-season mercenary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can bring him in, and he might be the guy who wins you a couple games and that gets you over the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across his seven seasons in the NBL, Prather played 134 games, averaging 18 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785300915_436_6a61a5ad7c9ee09714f75730_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casey Prather&#8217;s tenure in Brisbane is officially over, after the club thanked the star for his services on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-830541","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\/830541","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=830541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}