{"id":830102,"date":"2026-07-27T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830102\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:29:08","slug":"nuggets-match-thunders-offer-sheet-and-will-bring-back-spencer-jones-for-a-third-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830102\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets match Thunder&#8217;s offer sheet and will bring back Spencer Jones for a third season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DENVER (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/spencer-jones-1020770\/1176586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/spencer-jones-1020770\/1176586\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Jones<\/a> will return to Denver for a third season after the team matched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>\u2019s offer sheet, the Nuggets announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Thunder had offered a guaranteed two-year, $12 million offer sheet, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Nuggets signed Jones out of Stanford as a free agent in 2024. His retention as a restricted free agent brings with it severe financial implications for Denver, which faces a $32 million increase in current luxury taxes, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones started 37 of 64 games last season and averaged 5.5 points and 3.3 rebounds. He shot an NBA-best 69.2% on 3-pointers in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Spencer Jones will return to Denver for a third season after the team matched the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-830102","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\/830102","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=830102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}