{"id":203298,"date":"2025-12-26T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/203298\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:28:10","slug":"phoenix-guard-signs-with-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/203298\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix guard signs with Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brisbane Bullets are reportedly signing former South East Melbourne guard Hunter Maldonado for the remainder of the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL26 season.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc, the Americanwas recently released by the Phoenix and has since penned a deal with the Bullets.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hunter Maldonado has agreed to a deal with the Brisbane Bullets for the remainder of the 2025-26 NBL season, sources told ESPN. The 6\u20196 American guard was recently released from the SEM Phoenix, where he averaged 8.9 ppg and 4.3 apg in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/2004425063207260488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 26, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>During his 16 appearances with the Heartland club, the University of Wyoming alum averaged 8.9 points, 4.3 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-14 Bullets host the 14-7 Melbourne United on Saturday night at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre from 7.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766784490_251_690bcc0056be21e70a98dcf8_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Bullets are reportedly signing former South East Melbourne guard Hunter Maldonado for the remainder of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-203298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}