{"id":475439,"date":"2026-02-15T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475439\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:00:07","slug":"suns-agree-to-multiyear-deal-with-free-agent-highsmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475439\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns agree to multiyear deal with free agent Highsmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4291678\/haywood-highsmith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haywood Highsmith<\/a> has agreed to a multiyear deal with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6eade89-5971-0e84-8ccb-cd91482b2b50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>, his agent Jerry Dianis told ESPN on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Highsmith considered multiple playoff teams before reaching an agreement with the Suns, sources said. Highsmith was acquired by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"926db769-d35e-e282-9d7e-a05001d774ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"81e3212c-30ef-9b1b-5edb-453b13ff265a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> last offseason and then was waived at this month&#8217;s trade deadline to become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Highsmith, 29, hasn&#8217;t appeared in a game yet this season as he rehabs from a knee surgery he underwent over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a gritty, two-way player when healthy, he joins a Suns team that is 32-23 at the All-Star break &#8212; 1.5 games out of the 5-seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent Haywood Highsmith has agreed to a multiyear deal with the Phoenix Suns, his agent Jerry Dianis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-475439","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\/475439","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=475439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}