{"id":453266,"date":"2025-07-28T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=453266"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:09:53","slug":"nikola-vucevic-buyout-more-likely-than-trade-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikola-vucevic-buyout-more-likely-than-trade-per-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Vucevic buyout more likely than trade, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"153\" data-end=\"488\">Nikola Vucevic averaged <strong data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"224\">18.5 points, 10.1 rebounds, and 3.5 assists<\/strong> last season while shooting <strong data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"295\">53% from the field and 40.2% from three<\/strong>, but his market value appears to be cooling off. According to <strong data-start=\"358\" data-end=\"393\">Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report<\/strong>, a <strong data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"418\">mid-season buyout<\/strong> is currently more likely than a trade for the <strong data-start=\"465\" data-end=\"480\">34-year-old<\/strong> center.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"920\">Vucevic is entering the final year of a <strong data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"562\">three-year, $60 million deal<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"589\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong>, set to earn <strong data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"620\">$21.5 million<\/strong> in 2025-26. His age, contract size, and defensive limitations are making teams hesitant to pursue him via trade. So far, Chicago\u2019s offseason has been quiet, marked by the trade of <strong data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"831\">Lonzo Ball for Isaac Okoro<\/strong>, the re-signing of <strong data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"864\">Tre Jones<\/strong>, and the <strong data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"902\">No. 12 pick Noa Essengue<\/strong> in the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"922\" data-end=\"992\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite solid stats, the Bulls\u2019 veteran center doesn\u2019t seem to have a strong trade market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372103,"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-453266","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\/02\/Chicago-Bulls.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453266","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=453266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453266"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=453266"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=453266"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=453266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}