{"id":869919,"date":"2026-08-27T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T06:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:12:11","slug":"davis-delayed-passport-issue-clouds-superstars-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869919\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis delayed: Passport issue clouds superstar&#8217;s arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning Larry Sengstock Medalist Kendric Davis has yet to touch down in Sydney as the Kings gear up to defend their championship, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/crosscourt-the-latest-basketball-news-from-the-nbl-and-australian-hoops\/news-story\/d2be242693e99444ba94d412658d045a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CODE Sports reporting the star guard is currently navigating a passport issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Kings source confirmed to CODE Sports that it&#8217;s &#8220;an administration issue that we are working through as quickly as we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis was originally slated to arrive in early August for the start of the Kings&#8217; pre-season, but he now isn&#8217;t expected to arrive until later this week, just weeks out from the start of the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL27 Season.<\/p>\n<p>The star guard&#8217;s re-signing was the marquee move of the Kings&#8217; off-season, locking in his return to lead the reigning champions once again.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney opens its CODE Sports NBL Blitz campaign in Bendigo next Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here &gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/crosscourt-the-latest-basketball-news-from-the-nbl-and-australian-hoops\/news-story\/d2be242693e99444ba94d412658d045a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crosscourt: The latest basketball news from the NBL and Australian hoops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787811131_682_6a61a5ad7c9ee09714f75730_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning Larry Sengstock Medalist Kendric Davis has yet to touch down in Sydney as the Kings gear up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-869919","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\/869919","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=869919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}