{"id":773895,"date":"2026-07-01T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773895\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:13:20","slug":"report-raptors-agree-to-two-year-4-8m-deal-with-alijah-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773895\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Raptors agree to two-year, $4.8M deal with Alijah Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> are keeping one of last year&#8217;s rookies around a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>Guard <a data-player=\"c17e25c7-1306-4301-8548-2fc129a62041\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/alijah-martin\/c17e25c7-1306-4301-8548-2fc129a62041\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alijah Martin<\/a> has agreed to a two-year, $4.8-million deal to return to the Raptors, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2072368239527518407?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, 24, was the 39th-overall pick by the Raptors in 2025 after a productive collegiate career, where he won the national championship with Florida in his final season.<\/p>\n<p>A two-way player in his rookie season, Martin averaged 2.2 points, 0.9 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 23 games at the NBA level. <\/p>\n<p>He averaged 18.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.4 steals while shooting 39.2 per cent from beyond the arc through 30 G League appearances with the Raptors 905. <\/p>\n<p>Martin was selected to the All-NBA G League Rookie Team, All-NBA G League Defensive Team and the All-NBA G League third team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors are keeping one of last year&#8217;s rookies around a little longer. Guard Alijah Martin has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-773895","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\/773895","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=773895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}