Monsta hints he's ready to mash-up NBL27

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Former Adelaide 36ers star and NBA Sixth Man of the Year Montrezl Harrell has revealed at least one NBL club is interested in signing him for the 2026-27 season.

Harrell, 32, posted to X that “My agent just told me we got some NBL interest since being in (Puerto Rico)!!! Will The Monsta Be Back Down Under?”

The 515-game NBA veteran was stunningly released by the Adelaide 36ers before the start of the NBL26 season after failing a drug test for marijuana while playing in China.

"Don't know what team in NBL, but I will be back, promise that I got some unfinished business, I don't like leaving things undone!" Harrell posted on X on November 13, 2025.

Also in response to a fan saying "come back to the NBL", Harrell responded, "See you next season, no worries".

Harrell sat out his three-month suspension before signing for Atleticos de San German in Puerto Rico.

In the 2025-26 season, he’s averaged 16.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 22 games.

In an emotional – and still raw – interview with former 36ers teammate Jason Cadee on December 15, 2025, Harrell explained how the 36ers and its fans rekindled his love of the game after returning from an ACL injury in NBL25, only for his second season to end in controversy and confusion over a marijuana suspension by the Chinese Basketball Association.

"I give it to Matt (Weston), bro. He was definitely adamant throughout the whole thing, trying to help the situation and trying to figure out what actually was going down," Harrell he said.

"If anybody who was trying to figure it out, it was him... He definitely did the work of trying to get it handled or at least figure out what actually is going to transpire in it. But when it started to come down to the situation and to the point where he started to see that the people that he actually knew really couldn't do nothing with the situation... they kick me.

"This is the thing that rubbed me wrong with it.

“You send my agent a termination letter and give me a time period on that same day telling me I have to sign it, and if I don't sign it, you just going to terminate my contract.

“We didn't come to no agreement on parting ways, bro. They terminated my (contract) and signed somebody that same day, bro.

"So, that's where my animosity rubs. That's where my chest starts to get real tight now. I start to, you feel me, get real aggressive because you was with me, I stuck up for the club and took a suspension for three days for somebody pushing you, Matt. I took that suspension for you.

"Y'all telling me we family, we this and that and that's what rubs me wrong, bro... because I gave y'all all of me. Every time I laced up my shoes on that court, Adelaide got everything I had.

"Y'all got everything I had and y'all taught me and made me feel a love for the game of basketball again, bro, when I was in a real dark place, that will never change. But as I was done on the way out, that's f****d up, bro."