{"id":3100,"date":"2025-07-12T02:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3100\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:25:05","slug":"new-orleans-herb-jones-reportedly-agree-to-three-year-68-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3100\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans, Herb Jones reportedly agree to three-year, $68 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever new GM Joe Dumars and the Pelicans are building with their roster in New Orleans \u2014 and that is a legitimate question and discussion for another day \u2014 Herb Jones would fit in as part of it. <\/p>\n

Which is why the Pelicans and Jones agreed to a three-year, $68 million extension on Thursday with a player option in the final year, a story broken by Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a>. These three seasons will be tacked on to the end of the two existing years on Jones\u2019 contract, keeping him with the team for a total of five seasons (at a total of $96.4 million).<\/p>\n

Jones is an elite wing defender \u2014 2023-24 All Defense \u2014 who averaged 10.3 points per game last season and boasts a career 3-point shooting percentage of 36.6%. He is a high-level 3&D player. He and Trey Jones III are the core of the wings on the Pelicans, and part of the franchise\u2019s core with Zion Williamson. <\/p>\n

Because he is a coveted wing defender, multiple teams have called in recent years and kicked the tires on a Jones trade, but New Orleans has shot them down. However, should Dumars and the Pelicans decide to pivot, Jones is still on a very affordable and very tradeable contract with this extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whatever new GM Joe Dumars and the Pelicans are building with their roster in New Orleans \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}