{"id":498791,"date":"2026-05-28T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498791"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:57:21","slug":"ayo-dosunmu-expected-to-stay-with-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ayo-dosunmu-expected-to-stay-with-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayo Dosunmu expected to stay with Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48893787\/nba-free-agency-2026-contract-projections-austin-reaves-jalen-duren\">ESPN<\/a>, Ayo Dosunmu is expected to remain with the Minnesota Timberwolves on a new contract slightly above the midlevel exception \u2014 projected by several league insiders to start at around $15 million in the first year.<\/p>\n<p>With Minnesota, Dosunmu averaged 14.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists across 24 regular season games.<\/p>\n<p>In the playoffs, the former Chicago Bulls guard raised his level even further, posting 15.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists in 29 minutes per game, highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P3cJ3PW23hI\">his spectacular<\/a> Game 4 performance in the series against the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Dosunmu\u2019s expected return could also push Minnesota toward moving the injured Donte DiVincenzo for salary cap reasons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"43 Off the Bench?! Ayo Dosunmu Does Something Not Seen Since \u201976 | April 25, 2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3cJ3PW23hI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dosunmu produced 15.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game in the Playoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":498790,"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-498791","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\/2026\/05\/ayo-dosunmu-1.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498791","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498791"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498791"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498791"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}