{"id":893631,"date":"2026-09-16T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893631\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:44:13","slug":"report-breakers-sign-tall-black-as-injury-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893631\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Breakers sign Tall Black as injury replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Breakers have reportedly moved quickly to replace the injured forward Josiah-Jordan James, ahead of the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL27 Season.<\/p>\n<p>As first reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/foxsports.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">foxsports.com.au<\/a> and then later by ESPN, Tall Blacks international Mojave King has signed with the Breakers as an Injury Replacement Player.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year NBL veteran, who played 17 games with the Breakers in 2024-25, has career averages of 7.1 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 0.9 assists across his 95 NBL appearances.<\/p>\n<p>A former NBL Next Star, King was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 47th pick in the 2023 NBA Draft and has also played for Adelaide and Cairns.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakers announced on Wednesday that import James would be sidelined for the start of the season after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/tough-break-import-ruled-out-with-torn-hamstring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tearing his hamstring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand opens its NBL27 campaign on Sunday at Spark Arena, hosting Illawarra from 3pm AEST, live on ESPN.<\/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\/1789530253_625_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 1920x250.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Breakers have reportedly moved quickly to replace the injured forward Josiah-Jordan James, ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-893631","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\/893631","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=893631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}