{"id":514403,"date":"2026-09-09T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514403"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:04:13","slug":"brandon-knight-emerges-as-perth-wildcats-target-for-nbl27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brandon-knight-emerges-as-perth-wildcats-target-for-nbl27\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Knight emerges as Perth Wildcats target for NBL27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"1411\" data-end=\"1530\">One name to watch in the <strong data-start=\"1436\" data-end=\"1455\">Perth Wildcats&#8217;<\/strong> search for an import point guard ahead of <strong data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1507\">NBL27<\/strong> is <strong data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1529\">Brandon Knight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1693\">According to sources cited by ESPN, the Wildcats held talks with the <strong data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1619\">6-foot-2 guard<\/strong>, who spent <strong data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1658\">nine seasons in the NBA<\/strong>, at the conclusion of last season.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"1tjbjlb\" data-start=\"1695\" data-end=\"1722\">Perth has shown interest<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1724\" data-end=\"1864\">Knight is reportedly among the players being considered by Perth as the team looks to strengthen its backcourt ahead of the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1866\" data-end=\"2017\">The 34-year-old spent the majority of his career at the highest level of the NBA, playing for several franchises before continuing his career overseas.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2019\" data-end=\"2152\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Wildcats have reportedly shown interest in Knight, making him a name to monitor as Perth continues to shape its roster for NBL27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former NBA guard is reportedly among the players being considered by Perth for its import point guard spot. The Wildcats have already held talks with Knight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":514402,"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":[407,175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Brandon-Knight.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514403","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514403"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514403"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514403"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}