{"id":508603,"date":"2026-08-05T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=508603"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:16:31","slug":"melbourne-united-sign-nba-veteran-cole-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/melbourne-united-sign-nba-veteran-cole-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne United sign NBA veteran Cole Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United have announced the signing of Cole Anthony, a 26-year-old point guard and 367-game NBA veteran. Anthony completes the Australian club\u2019s roster for the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony joins Melbourne after five seasons with the Orlando Magic and one with the Milwaukee Bucks. Across his NBA career, he has averaged 12 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, with a career-high 37-point performance against the Philadelphia 76ers. \u201cI\u2019m super excited to begin this journey with Melbourne United,\u201d Anthony said. \u201cThis is a great opportunity to continue growing as a player and compete for a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jacob Chance called Anthony\u2019s arrival \u201ca huge moment for our club,\u201d highlighting his pace, strength at the rim, vision, shooting versatility and willingness to defend. Anthony will reunite with Joe Ingles, his teammate in Orlando during the 2023-24 season. \u201cCole is an elite scorer, elite competitor, and I think he\u2019s going to have a big impact here in the NBL,\u201d Ingles said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26-year-old guard completes the club\u2019s roster for the NBL27 season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":508602,"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":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-508603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","typology-official"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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