{"id":891205,"date":"2026-09-14T02:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891205\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:44:13","slug":"brandon-knight-perth-wildcats-lock-in-former-nba-guard-days-before-start-of-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891205\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Knight: Perth Wildcats lock in former NBA guard days before start of 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Perth\u2019s lengthy search for an import guard is over, with former NBA journeyman Brandon Knight locked in to join the Wildcats just days out from the start of the NBL season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Knight will bolster the Cats\u2019 backcourt and brings considerable experience to John Rillie\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 34-year-old had stints for seven NBA teams across more than a decade in the world\u2019s top competition, most notably at Phoenix, where he averaged a career-high 19.6 points per game in the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Knight has most recently been at Mets de Guaynabo in Puerto Rico\u2019s top league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Perth\u2019s season begins on Saturday night with a clash against South East Melbourne at RAC Arena, though it is unlikely Knight would be in a position to line up in that game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/86d7c3056f906c36c2c7f4cf89a60d5eb882ab94.jpg\" alt=\"Knight playing for Milwaukee in 2015.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconKnight playing for Milwaukee in 2015. Credit: KW DA**LON** MV**NY**\/AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Wildcats host Adelaide the following Thursday in a clash that will mark the return of five-time Perth championship coach turned Adelaide mentor Trevor Gleeson, as well as Bryce Cotton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth\u2019s lengthy search for an import guard is over, with former NBA journeyman Brandon Knight locked in to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,590,15057,15056,588,85],"class_list":["post-891205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nbl","tag-perth-wildcats","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891205","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=891205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}