{"id":894992,"date":"2026-09-17T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894992\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:26:10","slug":"duop-reath-to-sign-with-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894992\/","title":{"rendered":"Duop Reath To Sign With Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Suns are signing free agent center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reathdu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Duop Reath<\/a> to a one-year deal, Shams Charania reports for ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2100409842888298644?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The third-year center saw his minutes decrease each year with the Trail Blazers, but proved himself to be a reliable stretch big. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willima07.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark Williams<\/a> set to miss extended time following shoulder surgery, Reath will serve as big man depth alongside second-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/maluakh01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Khaman Maluach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is a one-year, veteran minimum contract, per John Gambadoro of 98.7 FM Phoenix (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Gambo987\/status\/2100411048012759299?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>), who notes that Reath had several other offers. The Knicks reportedly kept an eye on him before <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/09\/new-york-notes-knicks-vincent-fas-brunson-randle-nets.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wisemja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Wiseman<\/a> to a training camp deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, 6\u20199\u2033 center played 8.1 minutes over 32 games for the Blazers last season, falling victim to the Blazers\u2019 improved big man depth. He still managed to be efficient, posting a .446\/.418\/.833 shooting line.<\/p>\n<p>Gambadoro speculates (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GeraldBourguet\/status\/2100413298759868818?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>) that this deal will likely cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bouyeja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jamaree Bouyea<\/a> to be cut, as the team currently has 15 players under contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Suns are signing free agent center Duop Reath to a one-year deal, Shams Charania reports for ESPN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,35271,85],"class_list":["post-894992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-duop-reath","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894992","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=894992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}