{"id":326943,"date":"2023-04-18T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=326943"},"modified":"2023-04-18T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:46:39","slug":"luke-travers-signs-multi-year-deal-with-melbourne-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luke-travers-signs-multi-year-deal-with-melbourne-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Travers signs multi-year deal with Melbourne United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United have struck another massive deal in NBL Free Agency, and have signed emerging talent Luke Travers to a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The signing of Travers follows the announcement of the re-signing of former NBL MVP candidate Jo Lual-Acuil Jr last week.<\/p>\n<p>Travers \u2013 who was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2022 NBA Draft and was a finalist for the NBL\u2019s inaugural Next Generation Award last season \u2013 will arrive at United after four seasons and 100 games at his hometown Perth Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>After initially joining Perth as a development player the 21-year-old became a crucial part of the Wildcats\u2019 rotation under former head coach Scott Morrison in NBL22, which lead to him being drafted by the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>After playing the NBA Summer League with Cleveland ahead of NBL23, Travers experienced a massive jump in both responsibility and statistics under John Rillie.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he averaged 9.8 points on 50 per cent shooting (40.5 per cent from three), 5.6 rebounds and three assists across 27 regular season appearances.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LT \u27a1\ufe0f UTD \ud83d\udca5<br \/>We have officially signed 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBA<\/a> Draft Pick Luke Travers to a 3-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Travers averaged 10.5 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 2.6 assist per game while shooting 50% from beyond the arc across his final 16 games of NBL23.<br \/>Full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i0hp7cLafR\">https:\/\/t.co\/i0hp7cLafR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZGvBqC4kw6\">pic.twitter.com\/ZGvBqC4kw6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Melbourne United (@MelbUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelbUnited\/status\/1647842327476719618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last season the forward averaged 9.8 points on 50 per cent shooting (40.5 per cent from three), 5.6 rebounds and three assists across 27 regular season appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":326942,"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":[128],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-326943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-ufficiale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/04\/Ft5O-OhaYAEQ_hI.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326943","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=326943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326943"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=326943"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=326943"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=326943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}