{"id":760572,"date":"2026-06-26T01:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760572\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:50:58","slug":"report-mark-williams-plans-to-sign-3-year-deal-with-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760572\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Mark Williams plans to sign 3-year deal with Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2250383\" class=\"wp-image-2250383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/williams-iso-062526-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1436\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2250383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Williams has career averages of 12 points and 8.5 rebounds to go along with 1 block per game.<\/p>\n<p>Restricted free agent center Mark Williams intends to sign a three-year, $38 million contract to return to the Phoenix Suns, according to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Restricted free agent Mark Williams intends to sign a three-year, $38 million contract to return to the Phoenix Suns, sources tell ESPN. The deal is fully guaranteed for Williams, who averaged 11 points, 8 rebounds and 1 block in 23.6 minutes per game as the Suns starting center. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3hpQ9KlZNi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3hpQ9KlZNi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2070294866836226353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Williams was a restricted free agent after scoring 11.7 points and grabbing eight rebounds per game last season. The 7-foot-1 big man played his first three seasons with the Charlotte Hornets before he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/suns-hornets-trade-mark-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded to the Suns<\/a> in a draft day deal in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Williams \u2014 who was the No. 15 pick in the 2022 draft \u2014 has battled injuries throughout his career, but played in a career-high 60 games last season, including 55 starts.<\/p>\n<p>He shot 64% from the field and averaged nearly a block per game.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who was unable to come to terms on an extension last summer, has career averages of 12 points and 8.5 rebounds to go along with 1 block per game.<\/p>\n<p>The deal gives the Suns a clean sweep of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/suns-resign-collin-gillespie-jordan-goodwin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">re-signing their priority free agents<\/a>, as they retained Collin Gillespie on a four-year, $48 million deal last week, then kept Jordan Goodwin on a three-year, $19 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Williams has career averages of 12 points and 8.5 rebounds to go along with 1 block per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,363174,590,85],"class_list":["post-760572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mark-williams-suns","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760572","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=760572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}