{"id":933171,"date":"2026-10-19T00:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933171\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:44:13","slug":"report-adelaide-set-to-land-humphries-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933171\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Adelaide set to land Humphries cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adelaide 36ers are reportedly on the verge of signing Mangok Mathiang as they look to quell the impact of injuries to key players.<\/p>\n<p>With Isaac Humphries sidelined by a knee injury and no clear timeline for his return, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/crosscourt-rivals-out-to-use-kendric-davis-tells-against-him-big-man-to-join-36ers\/news-story\/1e20534337db4ad3945ce6be9dec5402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CODE Sports reports Mathiang will be brought in<\/a> to back up Nick Rakocevic.<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide\u2019s links to the big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/nbl-2026-adelaide-36ers-linked-to-mangok-mathiang-amid-isaac-humphries-injury-news-highlights\/news-story\/25442b2b81c9bdc764167955a6c92eed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were first reported by Fox Sports in early October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mathiang most recently played for Rwandan club Kigali Tigers, helping them to their first-ever Basketball Africa Championship. He averaged 17 points and 15 rebounds and was named Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The next stop in Mangok Mathiang\u2019s incredible basketball journey? Adelaide.<br \/>\nVery solid addition for the injured Isaac Humphries. Played really well in NBL stints at Illawarra and New Zealand. Reunites with Zylan Cheatham and Nick Shaq-ocevic gets his foil: https:\/\/t.co\/2oWuSGApiC https:\/\/t.co\/9MAJDfapgh<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Randall (@MickRandallHS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MickRandallHS\/status\/2111729383820197918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 208cm big man has previously played in the NBL with the New Zealand Breakers and Illawarra Hawks, most recently during the NBL24 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 7.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocks across his NBL stints.<\/p>\n<p>Mathiang played 4 NBA games with Charlotte in the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u200dRead the full story here &gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/nbl\/crosscourt-rivals-out-to-use-kendric-davis-tells-against-him-big-man-to-join-36ers\/news-story\/1e20534337db4ad3945ce6be9dec5402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adelaide&#8217;s new big man ready to Gok<\/a><\/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\/1792370653_185_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 1920x250.webp\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Adelaide 36ers are reportedly on the verge of signing Mangok Mathiang as they look to quell the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-933171","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\/933171","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=933171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}