{"id":119162,"date":"2025-06-23T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/119162\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:37:09","slug":"bulls-jevon-carter-picking-up-2025-26-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/119162\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls\u2019 Jevon Carter Picking Up 2025\/26 Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulls point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/carteje01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jevon Carter<\/a> is exercising his player option for the 2025\/26 season, according to Jake Fischer of The Stein Line (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JakeLFischer\/status\/1937223944269865176\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). The move will lock in a salary worth $6,809,524.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-434812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Jevon-Carter-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/>Carter, who signed a three-year, $19.5MM contract with the Bulls after enjoying a career year in Milwaukee in 2022\/23, hasn\u2019t played a major role during his first two seasons in Chicago, having had a hard time earning consistent minutes in a crowded backcourt. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/giddejo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Giddey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/whiteco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coby White<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dosunay01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ayo Dosunmu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/balllo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lonzo Ball<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonestr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tre Jones<\/a> were all ahead of him on the depth chart this past season.<\/p>\n<p>Carter has averaged 4.7 points, 1.2 assists, and 0.9 rebounds in 12.3 minutes per game in total 108 outings since becoming a Bull, with a subpar shooting line of .378\/.330\/.706. He posted averages of 8.0 PPG, 2.4 APG, and 2.5 RPG in 22.3 MPG on .423\/.421\/.816 shooting in his final season with the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>While Carter doesn\u2019t project to have a clearer path to playing time in Chicago in 2025\/26, there\u2019s some uncertainty surrounding a few of the Bulls\u2019 guards. Giddey will be a restricted free agent, Jones will be an unrestricted free agent, and White, Dosunmu, and Ball will also be on expiring or pseudo-expiring contracts. One or two of those players could emerge as trade candidates, though Carter figures to be on the trade block himself, since his $6.8MM cap hit could help grease the wheels on a deal.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/04\/nba-player-option-decisions-for-2025-26.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">our tracker<\/a> shows, Carter is the only Bull who had a player option decision to make this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulls point guard Jevon Carter is exercising his player option for the 2025\/26 season, according to Jake Fischer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,6299,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-119162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-jevon-carter","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114734370324084092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}