{"id":551550,"date":"2026-07-30T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:30:19","slug":"new-zealand-breakers-sign-josiah-jordan-james-for-2026-27-nbl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551550\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Breakers sign Josiah-Jordan James for 2026-27 NBL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">His rare combination of multi-positional defence, rebounding strength and perimeter shooting makes him a seamless fit for new Breakers head coach Gordon Herbert\u2019s high-intensity system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cJosiah-Jordan James is the exact type of import we wanted to bring into our system for NBL27,\u201d BNZ Breakers president of basketball operations Dillon Boucher said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe plays with immense physical toughness, defends multiple positions at an elite level, has a sweet shooting touch and brings high-level European and collegiate experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The Breakers have one remaining import slot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Breakers squad: Parker Jackson-Cartwright, DJ Vasiljevic, Izayah Le\u2019afa, Preston Le Gassick, Kouat Noi, Sam Mennenga, Carlin Davison, Reuben Te Rangi, Anzac Rissetto, Josiah-Jordan James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His rare combination of multi-positional defence, rebounding strength and perimeter shooting makes him a seamless fit for new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[125510,3392,11783,2082,305,3215,14054,270642,166446,117,111,139,69,25995,6926,7806,213,165,80],"class_list":["post-551550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-125510","tag-breakers","tag-brought","tag-for","tag-have","tag-imports","tag-james","tag-josiahjordan","tag-nbl","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-remaining","tag-season","tag-sign","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551550","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=551550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}