{"id":928791,"date":"2026-10-15T07:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928791\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:34:50","slug":"statt-attack-jackjumpers-upgrade-guards-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928791\/","title":{"rendered":"Statt Attack: JackJumpers upgrade guard&#8217;s deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Tasmania JackJumpers Media.<\/p>\n<p>The Tasmania JackJumpers officially announced the signing of Kody Stattmann to their roster for Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 Season on Thursday, following the retirement of Anthony Drmic.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old from Cairns originally joined the JackJumpers ahead of Round 3 as an Injury Replacement Player.<\/p>\n<p>JackJumpers Coach Scott Roth described Stattmann as being labelled by the League before he was thrown the lifeline by the JackJumpers, making an impact from that first game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKody was \u2026 basically on the street about 10 days ago but now he\u2019s playing in an NBL game for us and having an important contribution,\u201d Roth said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great credit to these guys trying to change the label of what people may think about them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll just keep reloading and keep finding players that want to do it the Jackies way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fellow JackJumper Ben Ayre is continuing his rehab for his hip-flexor injury, with 23-year-old guard Biwali Bayles extending his Nominated Replacement Player tenure for another week.<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania host Adelaide on Friday night from 7.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792049690_300_6aaf06b4ba693cfeb2523730_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 .png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Tasmania JackJumpers Media. The Tasmania JackJumpers officially announced the signing of Kody Stattmann to their roster for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-928791","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\/928791","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=928791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}