{"id":608729,"date":"2026-09-23T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608729\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:52:10","slug":"report-hawks-to-cut-ties-with-nbl25-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608729\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Hawks to cut ties with NBL25 champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re only one game into the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL27 Season, but the Illawarra Hawks are reportedly preparing to make roster moves.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Olgun Uluc, the Hawks are preparing to part ways with import Darius Days.<\/p>\n<p>The American forward, who helped the Hawks win the NBL25 championship, played less than seven minutes in the Hawks&#8217; 95-81 loss to New Zealand on Sunday, contributing 3 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Uluc reports that Days was informed of the decision on Tuesday, with the club putting strong consideration into signing an import centre to support starter Sam Froling.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks&#8217; next game is on Friday, September 25 against the Bullets at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.<\/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\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aaf06b4ba693cfeb2523730_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 .png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re only one game into the Hungry Jack&#8217;s NBL27 Season, but the Illawarra Hawks are reportedly preparing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-608729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608729","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=608729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}