{"id":460746,"date":"2025-09-20T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=460746"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:03:25","slug":"south-east-melbourne-phoenix-release-vrenz-bleijenbergh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/south-east-melbourne-phoenix-release-vrenz-bleijenbergh\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Melbourne Phoenix Release Vrenz Bleijenbergh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South East Melbourne Phoenix announced the release of Belgian forward Vrenz Bleijenbergh.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old joined the NBL after a two-year stint in Turkey with Merkezefendi, where he averaged 11.6 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 assists during the 2024\/25 season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Phoenix and import Vrenz Bleijenbergh can today confirm that they have mutually agreed to part ways.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix will now look ahead to replace their final import spot for the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 season. In the interim, Pat Ryan has been elevated to the main roster.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 South East Melbourne Phoenix (@SEMelbPhoenix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEMelbPhoenix\/status\/1968880449033486361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2025<\/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 Belgian player returns to the market after a brief stint with the Australian team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":460745,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-460746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Vrenz-Bleijenbergh-photo-fiba.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460746","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=460746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460746"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=460746"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=460746"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=460746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}