{"id":57027,"date":"2026-07-23T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/57027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:38:08","slug":"luke-travers-returns-to-melbourne-united-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/57027\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Travers Returns To Melbourne United On Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending most of the past two seasons in the NBA, Australian wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/travelu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Travers<\/a> is headed back overseas to rejoin his former team, Melbourne United.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Luke-Travers-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-485318\"  \/>Bulls guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/giddejo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Giddey<\/a>, who shares an agent with Travers, was the first to report (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshgiddey\/status\/2079823176188719130\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>) that his fellow Australian had signed a two-year contract with Melbourne United, and the club has since confirmed the news, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melbourneutd.com.au\/news\/nba-boomers-wing-luke-travers-returns-to-united-on-two-year-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issuing a press release<\/a> to announce Travers\u2019 return.<\/p>\n<p>The 56th overall pick in the 2022 draft, Travers initially remained in Australia as a draft-and-stash prospect, playing for the Perth Wildcats in 2022\/23 and then for Melbourne in \u201923\/24 before signing his first NBA contract in August of 2024. He spent the \u201924\/25 season on a two-way deal with the Cavaliers and then signed another two-way contract with Cleveland last July before being waived this February.<\/p>\n<p>Travers made 24 NBA regular season appearances during his season-and-a-half with the Cavs but primarily played in garbage time. He saw more action for the Cleveland Charge in the G League, where he filled up the box score by averaging 17.0 points, 9.4 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.6 steals, and 1.3 blocks in 33.1 minutes per game over the course of 36 total outings. His NBAGL shooting line was .465\/.275\/.653.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne United made Australia\u2019s NBL finals in Travers\u2019 last season in 2024 and again in 2025, but fell short of a championship both times. The 24-year-old said he\u2019s looking forward to helping lead the team to its first title since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m obviously super excited to get another shot at winning a championship with United,\u201d Travers said. \u201cI\u2019m coming into a group with a lot of really skilled, versatile players and veteran experience. I think the sky is the limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 I really want to win. I think every basketball player\u2019s dream is to just be remembered as a winner when you finish playing. \u201cObviously that entails winning as many championships as you can, and that starts now. When I\u2019m done, I want to be known as a guy that\u2019s won four or five championships, so the biggest goal right now is the winning and then everything kind of takes care of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending most of the past two seasons in the NBA, Australian wing Luke Travers is headed back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58263,260],"class_list":["post-57027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-luke-travers","tag-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}