{"id":773405,"date":"2026-07-01T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773405\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:01:17","slug":"report-john-collins-agrees-to-three-year-51m-deal-with-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773405\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: John Collins agrees to three-year, $51M deal with Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after the news of the reported trade of Kawhi Leonard to the Toronto Raptors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/john-collins\/28a2e698-9f33-4d4d-9a5d-9bea66ee42a1\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"28a2e698-9f33-4d4d-9a5d-9bea66ee42a1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Collins<\/a> agreed to a three-year, $51-million contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/detroit-pistons\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"detroit-pistons\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2072296893309231160\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-nine forward averaged 13.6 points and 5.3 rebounds while shooting 55.2 per cent from the field last season for the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers acquired Collins last July in a three-team trade with the Utah Jazz and Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>In his nine-season career with the Clippers, Jazz and Atlanta Hawks, Collins has averaged 15.7 points and 7.7 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>He joins a Pistons team that finished first in the Eastern Conference standings last season before losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after the news of the reported trade of Kawhi Leonard to the Toronto Raptors, John Collins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-773405","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\/773405","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=773405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}