{"id":877342,"date":"2026-09-02T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877342\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:08:15","slug":"phoenix-lock-in-nbl1-standout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877342\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix lock in NBL1 standout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix have signed Sam Davidson for the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL27 Season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old had an impressive NBL1 season with the Dandenong Rangers, averaging 15.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson registered 12 points and 3 assists in the Phoenix&#8217;s most recent pre-season game against Cairns, following 8 points against Melbourne United, 7 against Saint Mary&#8217;s, and 14 points, 4 assists and 3 steals against Japan&#8217;s B.LEAGUE UNITED team.<\/p>\n<p>The point guard becomes South East Melbourne&#8217;s final rostered player ahead of the NBL27 season, which tips off on September 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSam really showed his skill and work ethic during the recent pre-season games, and his play style is clearly up to the elite level,\u201d Phoenix General Manager of Basketball Operations Simon Mitchell said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a young guard, it\u2019ll do his development wonders to be surrounded by the likes of Skylar Mays, Nathan Sobey and Angus Glover. We\u2019re really excited to see him grow in the Heartland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/nbl27-roster-tracker-every-signing-extension-and-departure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBL27 Roster Tracker: Every signing, extension and departure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercoach.com.au\/nbl?utm_source=NBLContent&amp;utm_medium=NBL&amp;utm_campaign=Partner&amp;utm_content=Seasonal&amp;sourceCode=SCWEB_EPD_Partners\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"w-inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788347295_131_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 1920x250.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South East Melbourne Phoenix have signed Sam Davidson for the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL27 Season. The 25-year-old had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-877342","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\/877342","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=877342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}