{"id":845967,"date":"2026-08-06T20:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845967\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:06:12","slug":"jazzs-cody-williams-ticketed-for-bench-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845967\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz&#8217;s Cody Williams: Ticketed for bench role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/29233197\/williams\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams<\/a> (illness) is in line to compete for a reserve role during training camp this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Williams closed last season as a starter for a <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/UTA\/utah-jazz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz<\/a> team that was looking ahead to 2026-27, but they should have most of their key players healthy for Opening Night and added Darryn Peterson with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft. Williams, who started a career-high 41 regular-season games a year ago, failed to stand out in any one particular area, averaging 8.8 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 0.8 steals in 24.3 minutes per game in 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams (illness) is in line to compete for a reserve role during training camp this fall. Williams closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,270796,91191,590,85,11898],"class_list":["post-845967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cody-williams","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845967","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=845967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}