{"id":47143,"date":"2025-08-06T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47143\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:08:09","slug":"josh-giddey-expected-to-re-sign-with-chicago-bulls-by-end-of-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47143\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey expected to re-sign with Chicago Bulls by end of August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Josh Giddey contract stand-off could be nearing a conclusion, with the Australian looking likely to return to the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>After the team traded for him during last off-season, it was widely expected that he would be an immediate signing, with the Bulls projecting him as their point guard of the future.<\/p>\n<p>However, negotiations between the two parties were much more strained than initially thought, but the team is reportedly close to bringing back their man.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Giddey expected to re-sign with Chicago Bulls by end of August<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Giddey and the Bulls may be nearing a deal, ending a drawn out negotiating process.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/nba-stories\/siegels-scoop-jonathan-kuminga-standoff-warriors-final-stages\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ClutchPoints&#8217; Brett Siegel<\/a>, the two parties are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Josh Giddey and the Chicago Bulls are expected to reach a resolution on a new contract, likely in the three-year range, by the end of August,&#8221; Siegel wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bulls could increase their offer, but they have stood firm on keeping a new deal in the $20 million AAV range.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The latest speculation from agents not involved in negotiations suggests something in the $65 million to $70 million range.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While this is a considerable drop from Giddey&#8217;s reported initial asking price of five years, US$150 million, it is a formidable deal that will keep the Australian in Chicago as they look to build a high octance offence around the talents of himself, Coby White, Matas Buzelis, and Noa Essengue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Josh Giddey contract stand-off could be nearing a conclusion, with the Australian looking likely to return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-47143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143","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=47143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}