{"id":509789,"date":"2026-08-13T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509789"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:55:21","slug":"charles-bediako-joins-new-zealand-breakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/charles-bediako-joins-new-zealand-breakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bediako joins New Zealand Breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Breakers have announced the arrival of Charles Bediako as the final piece of their roster for the upcoming NBL season.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian center is the third import of the team after Josiah James and Parker Jackson Cartwright.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Bediako briefly returned to Alabama, where he played just 5 games. The center then transferred to the Scarborough Shooting Stars in the Canadian league, where he averaged 7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in 17 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Your final import is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Charles Bediako!<br \/>\n\u2070The 6\u201911 Canadian is heading to Auckland, bringing size, athleticism and lockdown defence as we round out our 2026\/27 roster. \u2070\u2070With 3 years of G League experience, Bediako adds another serious defensive presence to Gordon Herbert\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EJaXJ70yQE\">pic.twitter.com\/EJaXJ70yQE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BNZ Breakers (@NZBreakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NZBreakers\/status\/2087048329909968947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 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>The Canadian center is the third import of the team after Josiah James and Parker Jackson Cartwright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":509790,"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-509789","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\/08\/HPavZGaa4AAXgJy.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509789","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=509789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509789"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509789"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509789"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}