{"id":927619,"date":"2026-10-14T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927619\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:28:11","slug":"star-to-miss-kings-round-5-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927619\/","title":{"rendered":"Star to miss Kings&#8217; Round 5 fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Kings will be without star guard Matthew Dellavedova for Wednesday night\u2019s Ignite Cup clash with New Zealand and Sunday\u2019s blockbuster with Perth at Afterpay Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning champions ruled the four-time Olympian out of both Round 5 fixtures due to a calf injury, with the team saying he will be re-evaluated next week.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney, which suffered its first loss of the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 Season on Sunday to Adelaide, will be looking to keep its perfect Ignite Cup record intact after earlier defeating Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Dellavedova, who is averaging 6 points, 5.3 assists and 1.8 rebounds this season, will be replaced by Lachlan Bofinger in Brian Goorjian\u2019s squad for both matches.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s fixture at AIS Arena tips off at 7.30pm AEDT, 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\/10\/1791966491_239_6aaf06b4ba693cfeb2523730_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 .png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Kings will be without star guard Matthew Dellavedova for Wednesday night\u2019s Ignite Cup clash with New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-927619","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\/927619","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=927619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}