{"id":933539,"date":"2026-10-19T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933539\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:20:22","slug":"aussies-abroad-boomers-big-man-lands-nba-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933539\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussies Abroad: Boomers big man lands NBA deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duop Reath has landed a two-way contract with the Phoenix Suns, on a mixed day of news for Australians in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Former Sydney Kings Next Star Alex Toohey has been waived by the Golden State Warriors for a second time, while, as reported earlier on Monday, Ben Simmons has suffered a serious Achilles injury.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix converted Reath\u2019s Exhibit 10 training-camp deal, meaning he can play a maximum of 50 games for the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>The former Illawarra Hawk and Boomers big man spent his last three seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>Toohey was cut on Sunday (AEDT) alongside Tyler Burton and Dalen Terry, after rejoining Golden State for Summer League in July and appearing in four pre-season games on an Exhibit 10 deal. <\/p>\n<p>The former No. 52 pick was first waived in December after a season-ending knee injury, and could yet link up with the Santa Cruz Warriors for the 2026-27 G League season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.wnbl.com.au\/calendar\/wnbl\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"w-inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad545e4c677397c9b268ea3_WNBL27_Full-Power_1920x250 (2).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duop Reath has landed a two-way contract with the Phoenix Suns, on a mixed day of news for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-933539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933539","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=933539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}