{"id":785517,"date":"2026-07-07T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785517\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:57:57","slug":"report-kings-waiving-demar-derozan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785517\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kings waiving DeMar DeRozan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Charania, the Kings worked with DeRozan and his representatives to come to this decision to release him after they couldn&#8217;t find a trade that could work.<\/p>\n<p>DeRozan was set to earn $25.74 million next season in what would have been his last with the Kings. As Charania reported, that deal was only partially guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>As Michael Scotto of HoopsHype <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2074203358861095170\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>, the Kings will be waiving and stretching the final $10 million that&#8217;s owed to DeRozan over the next three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Now DeRozan&#8217;s free to look for a new home with, as Charania <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2074200873274601543\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>, multiple contenders expected to be lining up for the six-time all-star.<\/p>\n<p>DeRozan, 36, averaged 18.4 points per game on 49.7 per cent shooting from the field in 77 games with Sacramento last season. A veteran of 17 seasons, DeRozan was first taken ninth overall by the Toronto Raptors in the 2009 draft. He&#8217;s played for four (Toronto, San Antonio, Chicago and Sacramento) different teams over the span of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Charania, the Kings worked with DeRozan and his representatives to come to this decision to release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-785517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785517","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=785517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}