{"id":288741,"date":"2022-08-08T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=288741"},"modified":"2022-08-08T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:47:49","slug":"illawarra-hawks-add-george-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/illawarra-hawks-add-george-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Illawarra Hawks add George King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illawarra Hawks have secured the <a href=\"https:\/\/nbl.com.au\/news\/hawks-find-their-king\">signature<\/a> of American forward George King for NBL23.<br \/>\nOriginally drafted to the NBA by the Phoenix Suns, King boasts significant experience in the G-League, with averages of 13.5 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists in his most recent season at the Agua Caliente Clippers.<br \/>\nHe has also played at Dolomiti Trento in the EuroCup, as well as Enea Zastal BC Zielona in the Polish League and VTB League.<br \/>\nIllawarra coach Jacob Jackomas said the club was pleased to lock in its second import.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re excited to have someone with King\u2019s international experience join our young core group,\u201d Jackomas told the team\u2019s website.<br \/>\n\u201cHe gives us elite shooting and defending on the perimeter and we believe he will complement the other guys on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King joins Tyler Harvey, Sam Froling, Daniel Grida, Alex Mudronja, Akoldah Gak, Wani Swaka Lo Buluk, Deng Deng, Lachlan Dent and Mangok Mathiang on the Illawarra Hawks&#8217; 2022\/23 roster.<\/p>\n<p>His addition will go a long way towards filling the void left by the departing Duop Reath, Antonius Cleveland and Xavier Rathan-Mayes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illawarra Hawks have secured the signature of American forward George King for NBL23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[389,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-288741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"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\/288741","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=288741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288741"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=288741"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=288741"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=288741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}