{"id":626835,"date":"2026-10-11T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626835\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:10:10","slug":"breakers-suffer-huge-injury-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626835\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakers suffer huge injury blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours before they take the RAC Arena court, the New Zealand Breakers have suffered a tough injury blow.<\/p>\n<p>The club announced on Saturday that superstar guard and MVP contender Parker Jackson-Cartwright would be sidelined for a number of weeks due to a lower-leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Breakers President of Basketball Dillon Boucher said the club is playing the long game with their talismanic on-court general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs with any player at the club, our priority is their health and wellbeing and, in this case, we are taking a cautionary approach with Parker,\u201d Boucher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur medical team have caught this early and will manage and monitor him carefully over the next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American guard will be replaced in Gordon Herbert\u2019s squad on Saturday by Kael Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>This injury news comes as the Breakers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/report-new-zealand-breakers-linked-with-german-international-nelson-weidemann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly closing in on German international Nelson Weidemann.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Breakers play the Perth Wildcats from 9.30pm AEDT on Saturday, live on ESPN, 9 and 9Now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6aaf06b4ba693cfeb2523730_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 .png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just hours before they take the RAC Arena court, the New Zealand Breakers have suffered a tough injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-626835","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\/626835","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=626835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}