{"id":229104,"date":"2021-07-29T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=229104"},"modified":"2021-07-29T20:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:29:42","slug":"melbourne-united-sign-german-nba-prospect-ariel-hukporti-as-nbl-next-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/melbourne-united-sign-german-nba-prospect-ariel-hukporti-as-nbl-next-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne United sign German NBA prospect Ariel Hukporti as NBL Next Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United has signed 19-year-old German NBA prospect Ariel Hukporti for the 2021-22 Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL Season via the League\u2019s Next Star program.<\/p>\n<p>The highly touted seven-footer will use his time in the NBL to prepare for the 2022 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Hukporti spent last year with Nevezis, averaging 10.4 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game in the Lithuanian league.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are pleased to announce the signing of German NBA prospect Ariel Hukporti for the 2021-22 season via the NBL&#39;s Next Star Program.<br \/>The highly touted 7-footer will use his time in the NBL to prepare for the 2022 NBA draft.<br \/>Read more about Hukporti here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZPA3qFPipk\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZPA3qFPipk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wx7TxezAiL\">pic.twitter.com\/Wx7TxezAiL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Melbourne United (@MelbUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelbUnited\/status\/1420142001014525955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly touted seven-footer will use his time in the NBL to prepare for the 2022 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":229103,"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":[128],"tags":[13476,1743],"rumors":[134],"typology":[20,15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-229104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-ariel-hukporti-en","tag-melbourne-united","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-ufficiale","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/E7Vbgo2VIAMaiZU.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229104","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229104"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=229104"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=229104"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=229104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}