{"id":507715,"date":"2026-07-28T20:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=507715"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:04:17","slug":"skylar-mays-joins-south-east-melbourne-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/skylar-mays-joins-south-east-melbourne-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylar Mays Joins South East Melbourne Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Melbourne Phoenix have officially signed American point guard Skylar Mays to a one-year contract for the 2026-27 NBL season.<\/p>\n<p>Mays joins the Australian club after appearing in more than 100 NBA games during spells with the Atlanta Hawks, Portland Trail Blazers, and Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old spent the last season in Europe with Budu\u0107nost (9.9 points, 1.9 assists, 1.2 steals per game in Eurocup) , following a previous stint in Turkey, and now brings valuable NBA and European experience to the Phoenix roster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Skylar lands in the Heartland! \ud83d\udc9a<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve signed our second import Skylar Mays with over 100 games experience in the NBA, American point guard Skylar Mays for NBL27. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdd Full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YalKfpUQZU\">https:\/\/t.co\/YalKfpUQZU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9DMpy9CzL0\">pic.twitter.com\/9DMpy9CzL0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 South East Melbourne Phoenix (@SEMelbPhoenix) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEMelbPhoenix\/status\/2081881591295693209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mays set to continue his career in NBL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":507714,"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-507715","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\/2026\/07\/HORUPRJbEAACdcU.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507715","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=507715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507715"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=507715"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=507715"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=507715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}