{"id":748550,"date":"2026-06-20T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:14:09","slug":"report-kentavious-caldwell-pope-opts-into-21-6-million-deal-with-memphis-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748550\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope opts into $21.6 million deal with Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Memphis Grizzlies guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is exercising his $21.6 million player option for the 2026-27 season, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A two-time champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets, Caldwell-Pope underwent surgery to address a misalignment on his right pinkie finger in February and missed the last 31 games of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caldwell-Pope, 33, averaged 8.4 points, 2.7 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 21.3 minutes last season for the Grizzlies in 51 games with 14 starts, shooting 49.5% on 2-point field goals and 31.6% from 3-point range. The veteran averaged his fewest minutes and points last season since his rookie year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caldwell-Pope&#8217;s player option marks the final year of a three-year, $66 million contract for the veteran, who joined the Grizzlies from the Orlando Magic last summer as part of the Desmond Bane trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caldwell-Pope had been one of the league&#8217;s proven 3-and-D players, but his 3-point shooting percentage hasn&#8217;t been better than 34.2% over the past two seasons after hitting at least 39% from deep in each of his previous four seasons before 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ESPN&#8217;s Michael C. Wright contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is exercising his $21.6 million player option for the 2026-27 season, sources told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,267788,96368,459,82],"class_list":["post-748550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kentavious-caldwell-pope-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-602730","tag-memphis-grizzlies-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-29","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748550","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=748550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}