Kouat Noi

The NBL championship winning forward had his career-best season in NBL25 and will look to continue that upward trajectory at the Sydney Kings.

From South Sudan but moved with family to Australia at the age of four and grew up in Newcastle before playing alongside Ben Simmons at Montverde Academy in Florida and then attended Texas Christian University for two seasons.

Joined the Cairns Taipans for NBL20 with a strong rookie season before injury limited him to 34 games over the next two seasons ahead of lighting up the NBL1 North in 2022 as MVP with USC Rip City.

Joined the Sydney Kings for NBL23 and was a key member of the championship team and has continued to improve since including delivering a career best 14.6 points and 3.2 rebounds in 21.2 minutes in NBL25 at Sydney.

Spent the off-season with a stint in China and in the NBL1 East at the Sutherland Sharks and comes into NBL26 with no shortage of self-belief.