{"id":482136,"date":"2026-02-03T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482136"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:12:45","slug":"sacramento-kings-zach-lavine-plans-to-pick-up-his-48-9m-player-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sacramento-kings-zach-lavine-plans-to-pick-up-his-48-9m-player-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings: Zach LaVine plans to pick up his $48.9M player option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1347\" data-end=\"1604\"><strong data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1398\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Zach LaVine<\/span><\/span><\/strong> intends to exercise his <strong data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1440\">$48.9 million<\/strong> player option for next season.<br data-start=\"1471\" data-end=\"1474\" \/>That\u2019s the latest reporting from <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sam Amick<\/span><\/span> on the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sacramento Kings<\/span><\/span> situation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1765\">The report adds that LaVine is not expected to be traded by the deadline.<br data-start=\"1679\" data-end=\"1682\" \/>His $47.5M salary this season and next year\u2019s option complicate any immediate deal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1767\" data-end=\"1939\">This points to the offseason as the more realistic window for discussions.<br data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"1844\" \/>Sacramento could then pitch LaVine as a <strong data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"1904\">2026-27 expiring<\/strong> for teams eyeing 2027 flexibility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1941\" data-end=\"2025\">Source: <em data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"1963\">The Athletic<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Sam Amick, a deadline move is unlikely, largely due to the size of the deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393198,"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":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-482136","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\/06\/Sacramento-Kings.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482136","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=482136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482136"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482136"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482136"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}