Thunder's champion guard leaving NBA to sign contract in Australia's NBL

Billy Heyen

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One NBA champion from the Oklahoma City Thunder is heading Down Under.

From the Thunder to the Brisbane Bullets, from the NBA to the NBL.

Alex Ducas has agreed to a one-year contract with Brisbane, according to ESPN's Olgun Uluc.

Ducas earned his championship ring on a two-way contract. He appeared in 21 games last season for the Thunder, playing a total of 125 minutes.

He was an undrafted free agent signee out of Saint Mary's, where he made 40.6% of his 3-pointers.

Ducas will take that sharp shooting stroke to Australia after a short Summer League stint.

The 6-foot-6 Ducas didn't play in the Thunder's final Summer League game in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, although that could've mostly been due to this contract being in the works.

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Ducas wasn't looking overly likely to keep his two-way contract this season. The Thunder have already filled two of the three spots with new faces Brooks Barnhizer and Branden Carlson.

OKC could look to bring back current free agent Adam Flagler, who was on a two-way deal last year, or leave that spot open for an addition later in the offseason.

Ducas joins a Bullets team that went 12-17 in the 2024-25 NBL season. The most notable name Brisbane had was probably Rocco Zikarsky, the giant center who has just come stateside to play for the Minnesota Timberwolves after being drafted.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle