{"id":481004,"date":"2026-01-27T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481004"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:31:30","slug":"mike-james-reportedly-set-for-2026-free-agency-after-renegotiating-as-monaco-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-reportedly-set-for-2026-free-agency-after-renegotiating-as-monaco-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James reportedly set for 2026 free agency after renegotiating AS Monaco contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1415\" data-end=\"1593\">BasketNews sources say <strong data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1452\">Mike James<\/strong> will hit <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1482\">2026 free agency<\/strong>, one year earlier than expected. His 2024 extension through 2026-27 was reportedly renegotiated and shortened.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1878\">That leaves James eligible to sign a new deal with <strong data-start=\"1646\" data-end=\"1659\">AS Monaco<\/strong> or test the market in summer 2026. The move reshapes the upcoming <strong data-start=\"1726\" data-end=\"1740\">EuroLeague<\/strong> free-agency landscape, with other notable names expected to be available such as <strong data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1840\">Shavon Shields<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1842\" data-end=\"1858\">Daniel Theis<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1864\" data-end=\"1877\">Josh Nebo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1880\" data-end=\"2229\">Even with his age-36 season approaching next offseason, James is producing at an elite level: 16.6 points and a career-high 6.4 assists, with 18.3 PIR in 30 minutes. Since 2021-22 he has appeared in 180 of Monaco\u2019s 183 EuroLeague games and has led the club to four straight playoff runs, including two Final Fours and last season\u2019s run to the Final.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1080\" data-end=\"1152\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-239780-mike-james-free-agent-new-monaco-deal.html#google_vignette\"><em data-start=\"1080\" data-end=\"1099\">Source: BasketNews<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BasketNews reports the deal was shortened at the end of last season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481003,"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":[237,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-481004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Mike-James-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481004","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=481004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481004"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481004"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481004"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}