{"id":157305,"date":"2020-07-07T14:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=157305"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:58:31","slug":"xavier-cooks-returns-to-sydney-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/xavier-cooks-returns-to-sydney-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Cooks returns to Sydney Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lg:pl-0 xl:px-28 w-full relative\" data-v-42cf5a70=\"\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content text-base leading-tight tracking-normal font-normal nl2br leading-normal\" data-v-42cf5a70=\"\">\n<p>The Sydney Kings are excited to announce that Xavier Cooks has re-committed to the Club for the upcoming NBL season on a one year deal.<\/p>\n<p>In April, an agreement between the NBL and Australian Basketball Players Association which saw pay cuts for the 2020-21 season, allowed players to opt-out to explore opportunities outside of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Cooks had initially chosen to explore his options overseas, before deciding to recommit to the purple and gold under Head Coach Will Weaver. A local talent, the announcement is a big win for NSW basketball fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved every minute of my time with the Kings last season, and I\u2019m excited to be returning to Sydney to finish what we started this year\u201d Cooks shared.<\/p>\n<p>Cooks joined the Kings fifteen games into the NBL20 season after recovering from a knee injury he suffered while representing Australia in preparation for the 2019 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The talented forward played a pivotal role in helping the Kings to a Minor Premiership and their first Grand Final appearance since 2008, while averaging 6 points and 9 rebounds in 24 minutes per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>Kings Head Coach Will Weaver was also pleased to be welcoming back Cooks for another year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite joining us late, Xavier was a huge part of our team\u2019s success last season and I\u2019m thrilled that he will be staying in Sydney with us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud that like many of his teammates, Xavier believes Sydney is the best place to grow towards his dreams of playing at the highest level\u201d Weaver shared.<\/p>\n<p>Cooks becomes the sixth contracted player for the Sydney Kings joining Brad Newley, Craig Moller, Shaun Bruce, Jordan Hunter and Didi Louzada for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Free agency will begin July 15 with more exciting announcements to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Kings are excited to announce that Xavier Cooks has re-committed to the Club for the upcoming NBL season on a one year deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[389],"tags":[1231,10124],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-157305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","tag-sydney-kings-en","tag-xavier-cooks-en","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157305"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=157305"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=157305"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=157305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}