{"id":35666,"date":"2025-03-11T04:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/new-orleans-pelicans-to-bring-nba-basketball-to-australia-with-two-games-in-melbourne\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T04:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:43:15","slug":"new-orleans-pelicans-to-bring-nba-basketball-to-australia-with-two-games-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/new-orleans-pelicans-to-bring-nba-basketball-to-australia-with-two-games-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans to bring NBA basketball to Australia with two games in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Games against United and Phoenix lined up for October<\/li>\n<li>Pelicans pledge to bring full-strength side to Rod Laver Arena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NBA franchise the New Orleans Pelicans are the latest American sports team to agree to play in Australia, after officials locked in a two-match exhibition series against NBL sides Melbourne United and South East Melbourne Phoenix in October.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers are hoping to sell out the matches at 14,000-capacity Rod Laver Arena, held on the weekend following the AFL grand final, as well as draw a large crowd to two open training sessions to be held at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/11\/nba-australia-games-new-orleans-pelicans-melbourne-rod-laver-arena\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games against United and Phoenix lined up for October Pelicans pledge to bring full-strength side to Rod Laver Arena NBA franchise the New Orleans Pelicans are the latest American sports team to agree to play in Australia, after officials locked in a two-match exhibition series against NBL sides Melbourne United and South East Melbourne Phoenix &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans Pelicans to bring NBA basketball to Australia with two games in Melbourne\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/new-orleans-pelicans-to-bring-nba-basketball-to-australia-with-two-games-in-melbourne\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans Pelicans to bring NBA basketball to Australia with two games in Melbourne\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}