{"id":763547,"date":"2026-06-27T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763547\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:53:11","slug":"wolves-jaylen-clark-agree-to-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763547\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves, Jaylen Clark Agree To Three-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Timberwolves are re-signing restricted free agent guard\/forward Jaylen Clark<\/a> to a three-year, $10MM contract, a source tells Chris Hine of The Star Tribune (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic first reported that Clark would be returning to Minnesota (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s projected minimum salary for a three-year contract would work out to roughly $8.4MM, so it sounds like he might get a little more than that. Clark has full Bird rights<\/a> after spending the past three years under contract with the Timberwolves, who drafted him 53rd overall in 2023.<\/p>\n

The former UCLA standout missed all of 2023\/24 due to a torn Achilles he suffered in college, but he stayed under contract with Minnesota on a two-way deal. The 24-year-old remained with the Wolves in 2024\/25, when he made his NBA debut, and was promoted to a two-year, minimum-salary standard contract in February 2025.<\/p>\n

Known as a strong, versatile defender with a shaky jump shot, Clark averaged 4.0 points and 1.8 rebounds in 68 games off the bench last season for the Wolves (13.1 minutes per contest). The athletic 6\u20195\u2033 wing posted a shooting slash line of .434\/.327\/.657.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves\u2019 roster is in flux after agreeing to a blockbuster trade that sends Naz Reid<\/a> and several draft assets \u2014 most notably their unprotected 2033 first-round pick \u2014 to the Hornets LaMelo Ball<\/a> and Josh Green<\/a>. They originally agreed to send Julius Randle<\/a> to Brooklyn in a separate three-team deal but it will be expanded to include the Hornets.<\/p>\n

Bringing back Clark on an affordable multiyear deal will give Minnesota another depth piece on the wing. They\u2019ll be hoping Ball\u2019s play-making will bring out the best in Clark and several other players on the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Timberwolves are re-signing restricted free agent guard\/forward Jaylen Clark to a three-year, $10MM contract, a source tells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,79852,85],"class_list":["post-763547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-jaylen-clark","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763547","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=763547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}