{"id":788737,"date":"2026-07-09T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788737\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:49:09","slug":"jazz-bringing-back-mo-bamba-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788737\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Bringing Back Mo Bamba On Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

9:41 pm: Bamba\u2019s contract carries a partial guarantee for the upcoming season and a team option for 2027\/28, a source tells Tony Jones of The Athletic (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

7:15 pm: Mo Bamba<\/a>\u00a0will return to the Jazz on a two-year contract, sources tell ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"The 28-year-old center signed a pair of 10-day deals with Utah last season on February 26 and March 8, although the second contract was terminated<\/a> after five days so the team could add Bez Mbeng<\/a>. Bamba appeared in two games during that time, totaling 10 points, 20 rebounds, and two blocks in 38 minutes of action.<\/p>\n

Assuming Bamba makes the regular season roster, he\u2019ll be part of a center rotation that was depleted when the Jazz agreed to sign-and-trade<\/a> Walker Kessler<\/a> to the Lakers. The other big men on Utah\u2019s roster are Jusuf Nurkic<\/a>, who is expected to re-sign<\/a> for two years, and former Laker Jaxson Hayes<\/a>, who agreed to a two-year deal<\/a> in free agency.<\/p>\n

The Jazz will have 15 players with standard contracts when all the deals are finalized, with all three of their two-way slots currently filled.<\/p>\n

Bamba\u2019s career got off to a promising start in Orlando after being selected with the sixth pick in the 2018 draft, but he has bounced around the league after being traded to the Lakers midway through the 2022\/23 season. He had brief stops with the Sixers, Clippers and Pelicans since then, and spent about a week with the Raptors last winter.<\/p>\n

Bamba played part of last season with Utah\u2019s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars. He got into 10 games (five starts) and posted 16.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in 26.6 minutes per night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9:41 pm: Bamba\u2019s contract carries a partial guarantee for the upcoming season and a team option for 2027\/28,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,372040,85],"class_list":["post-788737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-mohamed-bamba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788737","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=788737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}