{"id":28426,"date":"2025-07-28T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28426\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:19:08","slug":"kings-fan-favorite-gets-2-7-million-contract-offer-to-leave-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28426\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; fan favorite gets $2.7 million contract offer to leave NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings hosted the best seasons of Richaun Holmes&#8217; NBA career.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been away from the Kings for a couple seasons, but soon, he may not even be in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/telesport.rs\/2025\/07\/27\/saznajemo-fenerbahce-blizu-nba-akvizicije-u-reketu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telesport reports<\/a> that Holmes has been in discussions with Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahce about a $2.7 million contract to go overseas for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that Holmes is still waiting to see if an NBA offer comes his way this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes has played 10 seasons in the NBA, most recently for the Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>He has played for the Kings, 76ers, Wizards, Suns and Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({event: &#039;element_click&#039;,item_type: &#039;affiliate link&#039;,item_id: &#039;https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-steph-curry-retirement-plans\/3df5805d39c53ebb91db385a&#039;,item_name: &#039;Steph Curry provides clarity on his retirement plans&#039;,cta_type: &#039;contextual_link&#039;,cta_id: &#039;&#039;});\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-steph-curry-retirement-plans\/3df5805d39c53ebb91db385a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steph Curry provides clarity on his retirement plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Across four seasons with the Kings, Holmes had his best averages with any team, of 10.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-10 31-year old played in 31 games this past season for the Wizards at 17.2 minutes per game and put up a ridiculous 64.7% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes can still score the basketball efficiently, and if he goes to Turkey, he&#8217;ll likely put up strong numbers.<\/p>\n<p>With his 32nd birthday coming in October, it&#8217;s not clear how much NBA time Holmes has left. Maybe one strong season in Europe would give him a final shot to come back to the league.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings hosted the best seasons of Richaun Holmes&#8217; NBA career. He&#8217;s been away from the Kings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-28426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426","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=28426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}