{"id":931024,"date":"2026-10-17T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931024\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T04:00:11","slug":"doolittle-ruled-out-of-kings-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931024\/","title":{"rendered":"Doolittle ruled out of Kings clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perth Wildcats star Kristian Doolittle will miss Saturday night\u2019s clash with the Sydney Kings with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>Doolittle has been central to Perth\u2019s four-game winning streak, averaging 15.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 6.6 assists this season, including 9 assists in last round\u2019s win over the New Zealand Breakers.<\/p>\n<p>Nominated Replacement Player Jimmy Whitt will come into the line-up, while Development Player Marley Sam has also travelled and will be active.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another hit for a Wildcats side already without marquee big man Jo Lual-Acuil Jr (calf), on their first road trip of NBL27. Newly signed point guard Brandon Knight, set to play just his second game for the club, will be asked to take on more of the playmaking load.<\/p>\n<p>The absence robs Doolittle of a shot at payback against the side that swept Perth out of last season\u2019s Playoffs, with the forward admitting on Wednesday the loss still stung.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, any team that stops me from getting a championship, I\u2019ll essentially, I\u2019ll never forgive them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tip-off is from 7:30pm AEDT on Saturday at Afterpay Arena, live on ESPN, 9 (Sydney, Perth), 9Go! (other states) and 9Now.<\/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\/1792209611_773_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 1920x250.webp\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth Wildcats star Kristian Doolittle will miss Saturday night\u2019s clash with the Sydney Kings with a foot injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-931024","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\/931024","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=931024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}