{"id":436535,"date":"2025-04-04T19:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436535"},"modified":"2025-04-04T19:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:14:36","slug":"denver-nuggets-dario-saric-faces-a-crossroads-with-looming-5-4m-player-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/denver-nuggets-dario-saric-faces-a-crossroads-with-looming-5-4m-player-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets\u2019 Dario Saric faces a crossroads with looming $5.4M player option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1804\" data-end=\"2132\"><strong data-start=\"1804\" data-end=\"1819\">Dario Saric<\/strong> is leaning toward exercising his <strong data-start=\"1853\" data-end=\"1883\">$5.4 million player option<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"1893\" data-end=\"1911\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>, per <em data-start=\"1917\" data-end=\"1934\">The Denver Post<\/em>, but the decision isn\u2019t final. After limited playing time in his first season with Denver \u2014 just 16 appearances and 13 minutes per game \u2014 the Croatian forward may reconsider his future this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2134\" data-end=\"2318\">Several European clubs, including <strong data-start=\"2168\" data-end=\"2183\">Real Madrid<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2188\" data-end=\"2208\">Dubai Basketball<\/strong>, have shown interest in Saric, who admitted: \u201cI\u2019ll talk with my family after the season and see what\u2019s best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2320\" data-end=\"2606\">The Nuggets face cap pressure, and Saric\u2019s salary could become an obstacle. If he opts in, Denver would have limited roster flexibility unless they manage a buyout \u2014 an option complicated by previous salary-dump trades. A return to Europe could offer Saric more minutes and a lead role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2608\" data-end=\"2678\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/04\/04\/dario-saric-contract-option-nuggets-europe\/\"><strong data-start=\"2608\" data-end=\"2637\">Source: <em data-start=\"2618\" data-end=\"2635\">The Denver Post<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a disappointing season, the Croatian big man must choose between staying in the NBA or returning to Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":386897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/Denver-Nuggets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436535"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436535"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436535"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}