{"id":112301,"date":"2025-09-01T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112301\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:15:07","slug":"talen-horton-tucker-nearing-deal-with-fenerbahce-hoping-to-stay-in-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112301\/","title":{"rendered":"Talen Horton-Tucker Nearing Deal With Fenerbahce, Hoping To Stay In NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guard\/forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hortota01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Talen Horton-Tucker<\/a>, who has spent the past six years in the NBA after being selected 46th overall in the 2019 draft, is finalizing a contract with Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahce, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-229948-talen-horton-tucker-finalizing-euroleague-move.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-406861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Talen-Horton-Tucker-Bulls-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>According to Urbonas\u2019 sources, Horton-Tucker is still hoping to sign another NBA contract, but if he is unable to find a deal he likes, he\u2019s expected to sign with the reigning EuroLeague champions.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1862912\/talen-horton-tucker-between-fenerbahce-and-the-nba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bugra Uzar of Eurohoops.net<\/a> confirms the news, stating that Horton-Tucker has a deal in place with Fenerbahce but it won\u2019t be completed yet as the 24-year-old awaits another NBA opportunity. A final decision is expected to be made in the next few days, Uzar adds.<\/p>\n<p>Horton-Tucker won a championship as a rookie with the Lakers in 2020 and spent three years in Los Angeles prior to being traded to Utah in the 2022 offseason. He spent the next two years with the Jazz, but was unable to find a guaranteed contract as an unrestricted free agent last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago native signed a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 deal with the Bulls last September and wound up making the team\u2019s regular season roster \u2014 he was the only player on an Exhibit 10 contract last fall to have that deal become a standard non-guaranteed deal.<\/p>\n<p>Horton-Tucker, who said it was a \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/10\/central-notes-ball-giddey-tht-middleton-holland-cavs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dream come true<\/a>\u201d to open the 2024\/25 season with his hometown team, not only made the roster but eventually had his contract <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/01\/central-notes-cunningham-lavine-vucevic-bryant-horton-tucker-middleton.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">guaranteed<\/a> when the Bulls decided to keep him around past the January deadline to waive non-guaranteed deals.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Horton-Tucker appeared in 58 games last season off the bench, averaging 6.5 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 12.5 minutes per contest, with a shooting line of .457\/.336\/.735. He holds career averages of 9.2 PPG, 2.6 RPG and 2.8 APG on .427\/.299\/.771 shooting in 305 games (19.5 MPG).<\/p>\n<p>As Urbonas notes, Fenerbahce\u2019s roster features several former NBA players, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/brandon-boston-signing-with-fenerbahce.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">including<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bostobr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brandon Boston Jr.<\/a>, who spent last season with New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guard\/forward Talen Horton-Tucker, who has spent the past six years in the NBA after being selected 46th overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82,14747],"class_list":["post-112301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-talen-horton-tucker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}