{"id":428480,"date":"2023-03-06T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428480"},"modified":"2023-03-06T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:13:08","slug":"wizards-sign-australias-last-season-mvp","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wizards-sign-australias-last-season-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards sign Australia&#8217;s last season MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wizards made a deal for the winger Xavier Cooks on a contract through the end of the 2023\/21 season, player&#8217;s agent Daniel Moldovan confirmed for ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The 6ft 8&#8242; Cooks was recently named the Australian National Basketball League&#8217;s MVP. He will most probably join Washington next week, when the championship in Australia comes to an end. In the final series Cook&#8217;s Sydney Kings are up against New Zealand Breakers and the result is 1-1 after two games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Kings star Xavier Cooks will join the NBA at the conclusion of the NBL Championship Series, agreeing to a two-year deal with the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Xavier ?<\/p>\n<p>?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KejiTDGq2p\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/KejiTDGq2p<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeTheKings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WeTheKings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3UxZDBvfLp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3UxZDBvfLp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sydney Kings (@SydneyKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SydneyKings\/status\/1632472379359399936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nCooks is 27 years old and is known for his excellent passing skills as well as solid defensive play. Last season he was also named AC Finals MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wizards made a deal for the winger Xavier Cooks on a contract through the end of the 2023\/21 season, player&#8217;s agent Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428481,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17235],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Washington are expecting Xavier Cooks next week","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428480"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428480"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}