{"id":184637,"date":"2025-09-27T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/184637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:28:09","slug":"exclusive-hong-kongs-muoka-determined-to-make-nba-dream-a-reality-despite-brooklyn-nets-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/184637\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Hong Kong\u2019s Muoka determined to make NBA dream a reality despite Brooklyn Nets setback"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Muoka is determined that his third season of professional basketball will be a breakout year, despite battling the disappointment of being signed and waived by the Brooklyn Nets in the space of 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Now, instead of running out at the Barclays Centre, the Hongkonger will turn out for the NBA\u2019s G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets, for a second time.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Post during an event at his old school on Friday, Muoka said the coming G League season, which tips off on November 7, did not \u201cfeel like a make-or-break\u201d one for him, and his expectations and ambitions remained the same.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Muoka believes he is better prepared for life in the NBA than he was two years ago. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of interests elsewhere, like in Europe and in Asia,\u201d he said. \u201cChinese and Japanese teams, those options were there. Even some Australian NBL teams were pursuing me really hard this off-season, and EuroLeague teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Muoka is determined that his third season of professional basketball will be a breakout year, despite battling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3995,108743,108746,402,671,103,157,8192,108741,108747,1076,5425,6259,108745,2114,108742,355,108740,4265,99,59429,25,108744,27547],"class_list":["post-184637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-asia","tag-australian-nbl-teams","tag-barclays-centre","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-chinese","tag-david-muoka","tag-euroleague-teams","tag-europe","tag-hong-kong","tag-japanese","tag-lamar-university","tag-las-vegas","tag-long-island-nets","tag-nba","tag-nba-g-league","tag-north-america","tag-sports","tag-university-of-nevada","tag-us","tag-west-island-school","tag-windy-city-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}