{"id":918355,"date":"2026-10-06T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918355\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:14:14","slug":"update-rakocevic-avoids-striking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918355\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Rakocevic avoids striking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: &#8220;Nick Rakocevic will be free to face Melbourne United tomorrow night after he entered an early guilty plea to a striking charge.&#8221; &#8211; Adelaide 36ers on X.<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide 36ers star Nick Rakocevic has been handed a one-game suspension by the NBL&#8217;s Game Review Panel.<\/p>\n<p>The incident during the third quarter, in which he made contact with New Zealand&#8217;s Mojave King was graded as intentional, low impact, and high contact.<\/p>\n<p>Rakocevic could be available to play against Melbourne United on Wednesday night, should the club accept an early plea and $1,550 fine. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Panel&#8217;s findings were as follows: <\/p>\n<p>The Game Review Panel (GRP) has made a determination on Adelaide 36ers player Nick Rakocevic, following an incident during Wednesday&#8217;s Adelaide v New Zealand Breakers game, charged with Striking.<\/p>\n<p>The GRP has classified Rakocevic&#8217;s conduct as intentional, low impact, and high contact.<\/p>\n<p>The base penalty is a one-game suspension, with an early guilty plea option of a $1,550 fine. Adelaide has the option to accept the early guilty plea or appeal.<\/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\/10\/1791303254_626_6aaf06b4ba693cfeb2523730_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 .png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: &#8220;Nick Rakocevic will be free to face Melbourne United tomorrow night after he entered an early guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-918355","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\/918355","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=918355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}