{"id":146180,"date":"2025-09-16T00:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146180\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:42:06","slug":"steins-latest-banton-love-warriors-nba-europe-bonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146180\/","title":{"rendered":"Stein’s Latest: Banton, Love, Warriors, NBA Europe, Bonga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free agent guard Dalano Banton<\/a> has received interest from teams overseas but continues to seek an NBA opportunity after spending the past season-and-a-half in Portland, Marc Stein writes for The Stein Line<\/a> (Substack link).<\/p>\n

According to Stein, Banton has recently auditioned for multiple NBA teams, including the Warriors and Pacers, though Indiana decided to pass on him.<\/p>\n

Banton, who was traded from the Celtics to the Trail Blazers at the 2024 deadline, has since appeared in 97 games for Portland, averaging 10.9 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 2.8 assists in 20.6 minutes per night, with a shooting line of .399\/.319\/.751. He has been an unrestricted free agent since his contract expired on June 30.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from Stein:<\/p>\n

The Jazz and Kevin Love<\/a> have yet to engage in serious discussions about a buyout, per Stein. While it\u2019s \u201cwidely known\u201d that Love would like to play for a team closer to contention, it doesn\u2019t sound as if he has a post-buyout spot lined up yet, Stein explains, so there has been no urgency to get out of his contract with Utah.
\nStein reiterates that the expectation around the NBA is that veteran free agents Al Horford<\/a>, De\u2019Anthony Melton<\/a>, and Gary Payton II<\/a> will sign with the Warriors once Jonathan Kuminga<\/a>\u2018s situation is resolved. According to Stein, the latest round of negotiations<\/a> between the Warriors and Kuminga has \u201csparked some fresh optimism\u201d that both he and those other vets will be signed prior to the team\u2019s media day on September 29.
\nAfter FIBA Europe president Jorge Garbajosa predicted that the NBA\u2019s new European league could tip off in 2027, Stein says his own reporting suggests Garbajosa\u2019s timetable may not be exact but also isn\u2019t far off.
\nAlthough Isaac Bonga<\/a>\u2018s NBA exit clause for 2025 expired<\/a>, he drew interest from a few teams earlier in the summer, according to Stein, who says Bonga committed to spending the coming season with Partizan Belgrade after not getting a concrete offer from any of those clubs. Stein anticipates Bonga will receive more serious NBA interest next offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent guard Dalano Banton has received interest from teams overseas but continues to seek an NBA opportunity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[5551,64,63,726,16115,32201,20444,98941,7227,32222,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-146180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-dalano-banton","13":"tag-deanthony-melton","14":"tag-gary-payton-ii","15":"tag-isaac-bonga","16":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","17":"tag-kevin-love","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146180","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=146180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}