{"id":236311,"date":"2021-09-10T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=236311"},"modified":"2021-09-10T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:32:21","slug":"adelaide-36ers-announce-cj-bruton-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/adelaide-36ers-announce-cj-bruton-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide 36ers Announce CJ Bruton as Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Adelaide 36ers are pleased to announce that CJ Bruton has been appointed as Head Coach on a three-year deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bruton, 45, is one of the National Basketball League\u2019s all-time greats, debuting in 1994 and completing an illustrious 516 game career in 2014. Over those two decades, Bruton averaged 14.9 points &amp; 3.6 assists per game while shooting 40% from the three-point arc and 83% from the free throw line. For all of those elite numbers, it was his record-equaling six NBL Championships that cemented Bruton\u2019s place as one of the best to ever hit the court in Australia. Accolades that punctuated a stunning playing career include an NBL Grand Final MVP Award in 2012, being named twice to the All-NBL First Team (2006, 2008) and All-NBL Second Team (2008), NBL Most Improved Player 1999 and the Gaze Medal in 2005 as Australian International Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Bruton boasts significant international experience having represented the Australian Boomers at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, the Commonwealth Games Gold Medal-winning team in Melbourne 2006, and the World Championships in Japan also in 2006. In all, Bruton represented the \u2018green &amp; gold\u2019 with distinction 104 times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the Sixers, CJ! \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vSDg6tqpRl\">https:\/\/t.co\/vSDg6tqpRl<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreSixers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreSixers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBL22?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBL22<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hvlLFjFLtN\">pic.twitter.com\/hvlLFjFLtN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adelaide 36ers (@Adelaide36ers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adelaide36ers\/status\/1436154964024311813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 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>Bruton, 45, is one of the National Basketball League\u2019s all-time greats, debuting in 1994 and completing an illustrious 516 game career in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":236310,"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":[3999],"rumors":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-236311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-adelaide-36ers-en","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/E-4YgC5VcA0FB9q.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236311","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=236311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=236311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}