{"id":708772,"date":"2026-06-01T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708772\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:37:17","slug":"5-bargain-bin-free-agents-who-could-help-every-nba-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708772\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Bargain-Bin Free Agents Who Could Help Every NBA Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">2025-26 Salary: $1.7 million<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">2025-26 Stats: 6.7 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.0 assists, 1.2 steals<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Keon Ellis wasn&#8217;t a huge part of the Cleveland Cavaliers&#8217; playoff rotation, which could raise some red flags. Ultimately, though, it says just as much about the team&#8217;s oversaturation of non-wings and small guards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Slotting Ellis into a starting 2-guard spot is not an overreach of his skill set. He won&#8217;t run the offense as a ball-handler, but he can usually check any backcourt initiators who don&#8217;t spill into power-wing territory. Even then, we have seen his teams throw him at bigger bodies, including Luka Don\u010di\u0107, when in a pinch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Offensive consistency remains the 26-year-old&#8217;s biggest issue. His career 40.7 percent clip from beyond the arc is <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/e\/elliske01.html#all_per_minute_stats\">coming on a ho-hum<\/a> six attempts per 36 minutes. He can be hesitant to fire away quickly enough and is even more reluctant to put the ball on the floor and attack closeouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Working around those limitations is an annoyance if your rotation is teeming with aggressive guards or you&#8217;re paying Ellis $10-plus million per year. When he&#8217;s making south of $6 million, he&#8217;s a plug-and-play talent worth betting on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025-26 Salary: $1.7 million 2025-26 Stats: 6.7 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.0 assists, 1.2 steals Keon Ellis wasn&#8217;t a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-708772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708772","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=708772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}