{"id":848970,"date":"2026-08-09T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848970\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:40:11","slug":"report-phoenix-land-third-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848970\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Phoenix land third import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix have reportedly added another key piece heading into the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 Season, signing Yannis Morin on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The French big man stands at 6\u201910\u201d (208 centimetres) and most recently played with Joventut Badalona in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Morin\u2019s professional career has seen him play in Spain, Japan, France and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old forward would join Skylar Mays and D\u2019Shawn Schwartz on a Phoenix roster that was knocked out in the Playoffs last year but showed significant improvement under newly re-signed coach Josh King.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yannis Morin has agreed to a one-year deal with the South East Melbourne Phoenix, sources told ESPN. The 6\u201910 forward out of France is coming off a season where he played for Badalona in the Liga ACB, as well as the Toyama Grouses in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/2086348396928077861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 9, 2026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/linkin.bio\/nbl\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"w-inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786268411_95_6a61a5ad7c9ee09714f75730_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix have reportedly added another key piece heading into the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 Season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-848970","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\/848970","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=848970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}