{"id":133176,"date":"2025-09-10T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133176\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:26:07","slug":"trey-lyles-signs-with-real-madrid-leaves-nba-after-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133176\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Lyles signs with Real Madrid, leaves NBA after 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID &#8212; NBA veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/3136196\/trey-lyles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Lyles<\/a> has made the jump overseas by joining Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The forward, who played the past three-plus seasons for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e266c4ea-9af3-1bd8-06fb-fd608fd30e26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a>, signed a one-year contract Wednesday with the Spanish powerhouse, which plays both domestically and in the EuroLeague.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Lyles was selected 12th overall by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77cea2fb-1388-b7c8-d171-2e72b3aecbfb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> in the 2015 NBA draft &#8212; one spot ahead of former Kentucky teammate <a data-player-guid=\"493046d7-fa60-d8a1-1397-b9a6dca8dedf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3136193\/devin-booker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Booker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lyles has played 10 seasons in the NBA &#8212; with the Jazz, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8aef8547-32f5-0943-a1de-e734567674cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>, and the Kings. He averaged 6.5 points and 4.6 rebounds per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian competed at the Paris Olympics, helping Canada reach the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid, the former team of <a data-player-guid=\"583794eb-0f38-9bbd-3e25-9dd33b7f83b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3945274\/luka-doncic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a>, is one of Europe&#8217;s most successful clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID &#8212; NBA veteran Trey Lyles has made the jump overseas by joining Real Madrid. The forward, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-133176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}