{"id":748007,"date":"2026-06-20T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748007\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:03:12","slug":"report-wizards-dangelo-russell-opts-into-6-million-player-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748007\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Wizards&#8217; D&#8217;Angelo Russell opts into $6 million player option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell was traded from the Dallas Mavericks to Washington along with Anthony Davis in a three-team blockbuster last season, but didn&#8217;t play a game for the Wizards and remained away from the team indefinitely. <\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old averaged 10.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and four assists in 26 games with the Mavericks in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Russell is a 17-point-per-game scorer over the course of his 11-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, Brooklyn Nets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Golden State Warriors and Mavericks. <\/p>\n<p>He stands to slot in behind Bilal Coulibaly, Bub Carrington, Tre Johnson and CJ McCollum in the Wizards&#8217; backcourt rotation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell was traded from the Dallas Mavericks to Washington along with Anthony Davis in a three-team blockbuster last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-748007","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\/748007","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=748007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}