{"id":2029913,"date":"2026-07-06T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2029913"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:57:59","slug":"sacramento-kings-to-waive-demar-derozan-making-veteran-a-top-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2029913","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings to waive DeMar DeRozan, making veteran a top free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The Sacramento Kings plan to waive 17-year NBA veteran DeMar DeRozan, according to a team source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been completed. Once the move goes through, DeRozan will be among the top free agents on the market.<\/p>\n<p>DeRozan had one year and $25.74 million left on a three-year contract he signed in 2024, but the final season was only partially guaranteed. The forward started 77 games for the Kings, averaging 18.4 points and 4.1 assists per game. A six-time All-Star and three-time All-NBA selection, DeRozan spent most of his career in Toronto before three-year stints in San Antonio and Chicago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kings may still choose to stretch DeRozan\u2019s salary, which would spread his remaining amount ($10 million guaranteed next season) over the next three years on their books. But since that deadline isn\u2019t until Aug. 31, team sources say the Kings will pursue trades with other players that would allow them to not have to stretch DeRozan\u2019s salary. In that scenario, the sources say, the Kings would need to take back approximately $8 million less in salary for the numbers to work.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6877429\/2025\/12\/19\/nba-trade-rumors-anthony-davis-trae-young\/\">NBA trade board<\/a>, where DeRozan is ranked 14th among the hottest players who could be on the move, <em>The Athletic\u2019s<\/em> Sam Vecenie writes: \u201cYou know exactly what you\u2019re getting with DeRozan: one of the few remaining midrange assassins in the NBA, a confident scorer who is elite at getting to his spots and shooting over the top of defenders. Defensively, you have to cover for him. He\u2019s not quite the six-time All-Star that he was in Toronto and Chicago, but he can be an effective bucket getter. On a contender, he\u2019s probably best as a sixth man. However, some teams could use his shot creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings plan to waive 17-year NBA veteran DeMar DeRozan, according to a team source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been completed. Once the move goes through, DeRozan will be among the top free agents on the market. DeRozan had one year and $25.74 million left on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-2029913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2029913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}