{"id":734103,"date":"2026-06-30T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734103\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:38:14","slug":"thunder-exercise-team-option-for-defensive-ace-luguentz-dort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734103\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder exercise team option for defensive ace Luguentz Dort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2253356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2253356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages_LuDort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2253356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Thunder are bringing back Luguentz Dort to anchor their defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder are bringing back a vital piece of their championship core. Oklahoma City announced that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/thunder\/news\/release-team-option-dort-260629\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exercise a team option<\/a> for swingman Luguentz Dort Monday, keeping the defensive stalwart with the only NBA team he\u2019s ever known.<\/p>\n<p>Dort, a <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\/playoffs\/2025\/the-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">champion with the Thunder<\/a> in 2025, is one of only four players in Oklahoma City\u2019s history to be named All-Defensive First Team.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has averaged 11.6 points per game in seven seasons with the Thunder, and he averaged 8.3 points per game last year on 38.5 percent shooting.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thunder Exercises Team Option on Luguentz Dort<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AsOJ6cCh46\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/AsOJ6cCh46<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8SS7jTgSxW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8SS7jTgSxW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/okcthunder\/status\/2071708251125600359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thunder are bringing back Luguentz Dort to anchor their defense. The Thunder are bringing back a vital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4133,149487,355,99,46491],"class_list":["post-734103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-contract","tag-luguentz-dort","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734103","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=734103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}