{"id":939083,"date":"2026-10-24T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T09:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939083\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T09:12:17","slug":"breakers-welcome-back-mvp-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939083\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakers welcome back MVP contender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Breakers have received a massive boost on the eve of their Round 6 clash with the Cairns Taipans on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakers announced on Saturday that superstar point guard and MVP contender Parker Jackson-Cartwright has been cleared to make his return from a lower-leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>The American, who sustained the injury after the team\u2019s Round 3 win over Adelaide, is averaging career-best figures in points (26.6), assists (9.4), three-point percentage (44.2), free-throw percentage (85.7) and blocks (0.6) across his five Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes as the Taipans also announced that star wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/three-time-champion-jaylin-galloway-cleared-for-cairns-taipans-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaylin Galloway would be making his Taipans debut<\/a> during the Cairns Convention Centre clash.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s match tips off at 3pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792833137_364_6aaf06b4ba693cfeb2523730_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 .png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Breakers have received a massive boost on the eve of their Round 6 clash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-939083","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\/939083","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=939083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}