{"id":1942,"date":"2021-02-01T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T05:54:39","slug":"spectres-re-sign-tom-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/spectres-re-sign-tom-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectres Re-Sign Tom Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE &#8211; Tom Wright has re-signed with the NBL1 champion Nunawading Spectres, the team announced on Monday, a move that sets the foundation for a title defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter such a challenging year and a lot of forced time away from basketball, it&#8217;s great to be back on court with the group,\u201d Wright said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m thrilled to be back for another year with Nunawading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to another competitive season and defending our title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright appeared in 14 games for the Spectres across the 2019 NBL1 season, juggling his commitments with the Australian 3&#215;3 National Team. He returned 17.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, helping guide Nunawading to the inaugural NBL1 title over the Bendigo Braves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQ3EiadKJDU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The former Sydney Kings guard will again be called upon to lead the Spectres, more so given the retirement of all-time league assist leader\u00a0Shane McDonald following their 2019 success.<\/p>\n<p>With Nunawading stepping into this season under new head coach Andrew Cutler, Wright provides unparalleled stability and experience in the guard position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to have Tom return to Nunawading for another season,&#8221; Cutler said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He gives us a great foundation in the backcourt not only as an elite two-way player but also as an outstanding leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spectres fans can be assured that the club is expecting to return much of \u00a0the core from its championship team, pointing to continued success through 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE &#8211; Tom Wright has re-signed with the NBL1 champion Nunawading Spectres, the team announced on Monday, a move that sets the foundation for a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/spectres-re-sign-tom-wright\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nbl1","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}