{"id":28857,"date":"2025-07-28T07:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28857\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:29:17","slug":"kings-fan-favorite-gets-2-7-million-contract-offer-to-leave-nba-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28857\/","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 href=\"https:\/\/telesport.rs\/2025\/07\/27\/saznajemo-fenerbahce-blizu-nba-akvizicije-u-reketu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Telesport reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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>Advertisement<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-steph-curry-retirement-plans\/3df5805d39c53ebb91db385a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steph Curry provides clarity on his retirement plans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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>Advertisement<\/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":28515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[22388,49,48,22386,22387,459,22384,10679,82,12467,6694,22385,3643],"class_list":["post-28857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-four-seasons","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-richaun-holmes","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports","tag-steph-curry","tag-suns","tag-the-wizards","tag-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28857","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=28857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}