{"id":878126,"date":"2026-09-03T03:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878126\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:06:20","slug":"report-passport-drama-rules-davis-out-of-nbl-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878126\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Passport drama rules Davis out of NBL Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Kings star Kendric Davis will reportedly miss the CODE Sports NBL Blitz.<\/p>\n<p>According to CODE, an administration issue related to Davis&#8217; passport has delayed his travel to Australia, leaving him stranded in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The superstar guard won Championship MVP honours during the Kings&#8217; title run last season and is key to the club&#8217;s hopes of going back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A club source confirmed to CODE Sports the prolific American will miss the entire six-day event,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/sydney-kings-grand-final-mvp-kendric-davis-stranded-in-us-will-miss-entire-code-sports-nbl-blitz\/news-story\/5b969d9e1dae011c03cb1a2d376389a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CODE reported on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings play the first of their two games at the Blitz in Bendigo on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Player update: KD has been ruled out of tomorrow\u2019s game against South East Melbourne due to a travel delay. Lachlan Bofinger will replace KD in the lineup as the nominated replacement player.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sydney Kings (@SydneyKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SydneyKings\/status\/2094681667793248428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here &gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/sydney-kings-grand-final-mvp-kendric-davis-stranded-in-us-will-miss-entire-code-sports-nbl-blitz\/news-story\/5b969d9e1dae011c03cb1a2d376389a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sydney Kings\u2019 grand final MVP Kendric Davis stranded in US, will miss entire Code Sports NBL Blitz<\/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\/1788404780_747_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 1920x250.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Kings star Kendric Davis will reportedly miss the CODE Sports NBL Blitz. According to CODE, an administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-878126","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\/878126","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=878126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}