{"id":516388,"date":"2026-09-18T07:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=516388"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:03:50","slug":"saddiq-bey-agrees-to-three-year-55-5-million-extension-with-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/saddiq-bey-agrees-to-three-year-55-5-million-extension-with-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddiq Bey agrees to three-year, $55.5 million extension with Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saddiq Bey has agreed to a <strong>three-year, $55.5 million contract extension with the New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong>, his agents James Dunleavy and Jordan Gertler of Excel Sports Management told ESPN. The agreement also includes a trade kicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bey is now under contract with New Orleans through the <strong>2029-30 season<\/strong>, with the deal fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bey coming off a career year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bey missed the entire 2024-25 season after suffering a torn ACL during his time with the Atlanta Hawks. He bounced back last season with New Orleans, averaging a <strong>career-high 17.7 points per game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He appeared in <strong>72 games<\/strong>, starting 64 of them, while also averaging <strong>5.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bey recorded three of the four highest-scoring games of his career during the season, scoring <strong>42 points against Utah on February 26<\/strong>, 36 against Memphis on January 23 and 34 against Philadelphia on January 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strong finish to the season<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to ESPN Research, Bey averaged <strong>20 points per game while shooting 40% from three-point range after the All-Star break<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also posted career highs in both two-point field-goal attempts and makes, as well as free-throw attempts and makes per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bey was originally selected by the <strong>Detroit Pistons with the 19th overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pelicans lock up Bey long term<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across <strong>364 career games<\/strong> with the Pistons, Hawks and Pelicans, Bey has averaged <strong>14.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Orleans will open its preseason schedule against the Oklahoma City Thunder on <strong>October 6<\/strong>, while the regular season begins at home against the Indiana Pacers on <strong>October 21<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans has secured the forward through the 2029-30 season with a fully guaranteed deal that also includes a trade kicker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":516389,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[16775],"class_list":["post-516388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors","posizionamento-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-18-alle-07.03.19.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516388","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516391,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516388\/revisions\/516391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516388"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=516388"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=516388"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=516388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}