{"id":771256,"date":"2026-07-01T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771256\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:19:12","slug":"report-australian-nba-star-lands-20-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771256\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Australian NBA star lands $20 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Jock Landale has reportedly reached an agreement on a one-year, $US14 million ($A20 million) deal to re-sign with the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>A person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal cannot be signed or announced by the team before July 6.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta helped to clear financial room for 30-year-old Melburnian Landale by declining their $US24.3 million ($A35.1 million) team option on forward Jonathan Kuminga. Monday was the last day for the Hawks to commit to the option and the decision made Kuminga a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Landale averaged 9.1 points and 4.1 rebounds in 23 regular-season games with Atlanta, but missed the team&#8217;s playoff loss to the New York Knicks because of a sprained right ankle. The Hawks acquired the 6-foot-11 centre from Utah on February 4, one day after Landale was traded from Memphis to the Jazz as part of an eight-player deal.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, in 68 games with the Grizzlies and Atlanta last season, Landale set career highs with his averages of 10.6 points and 5.7 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 NBL champion and Tokyo Olympian has averaged 6.6 points and 3.9 rebounds in five NBA seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks acquired Kuminga and guard Buddy Hield in a deal that sent centre Kristaps Porzingis to the Golden State Warriors at the trade deadline. Kuminga averaged 12.3 points in 16 regular-season games, including one start, with Atlanta. He averaged 13.7 points in the playoff loss to the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.website-files.com\/64a50350adad23f0f1ef8f43\/69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article%20Banner_1920x250%20(1).avif\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Jock Landale has reportedly reached an agreement on a one-year, $US14 million ($A20 million) deal to re-sign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-771256","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\/771256","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=771256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}