2025-26 Stats: 8.1 PTS, 1.0 REB, 1.2 AST, 0.5 STL<\/p>\n
2025-26 Salary: $3.7 million<\/p>\n
Pure shooting guards don’t hold as much appeal these days. Gary Trent Jr.’s value is also severely complicated by a down-bad 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the degree to which he’s a one-position player gets overstated. He can\u2014and is\u2014deployed as a wing more often than players like Anfernee Simons or even Bennedict Mathurin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Granted, most of Trent’s defensive value is rooted in creating chaos away from the ball. He didn’t do that nearly as well last year, and his approach is high-risk, high-reward even when it’s working.<\/p>\n
It still makes sense to bet on a 27-year-old’s longer-standing track record. Before last season, the best version of Trent saw him down a ton of threes and break up possessions at the less glamorous end.<\/p>\n
Over the past five years, in fact, he has rated in the 70th percentile or better of passing lane defense and catch-and-shoot three-point shot-making while logging more than 1,500 minutes four times, according to BBall Index. The only other players who can say<\/a> the same: OG Anunoby, Mike Conley, Nikola Joki\u0107, Donovan Mitchell, Donte DiVincenzo and Fred VanVleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025-26 Stats: 8.1 PTS, 1.0 REB, 1.2 AST, 0.5 STL 2025-26 Salary: $3.7 million Pure shooting guards don’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-784754","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\/784754","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=784754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}