Washington Wizards forward Khris Middleton has exercised his $33.3 million player option for the 2025-26 season, per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n
Middleton, 33, is a three-time All-Star who was traded to the Wizards in February as part of the Kyle Kuzma trade. The 6-foot-7 forward averaged 10.7 points per game across 14 appearances with Washington.<\/p>\n
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The Wizards went an improved 6-8 in games Middleton played, showcasing the positive affect the veteran had on Washington\u2019s young group.<\/p>\n
Middleton picking up his player option was an expected move, considering his injury-riddled past would\u2019ve made it difficult to attract that type of money on the open market.<\/p>\n
The former NBA Champion will likely start for the Wizards next season, serving as a veteran mentor for Washington\u2019s core of young talent, which includes Bilal Coulibaly, Alex Sarr, Bub Carrington, Kyshawn George, AJ Johnson and whoever they select in this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s some additional thoughts on Middleton exercising his player option:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards forward Khris Middleton has exercised his $33.3 million player option for the 2025-26 season, per ESPN\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[4008,979,7,1257,2644,2039,124,6333,6,5033,567,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-119370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-aj-johnson","9":"tag-alex-sarr","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bilal-coulibaly","12":"tag-bub-carrington","13":"tag-khris-middleton","14":"tag-kyle-kuzma","15":"tag-kyshawn-george","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-player-option","18":"tag-shams-charania","19":"tag-washington","20":"tag-washington-wizards","21":"tag-washingtonwizards","22":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114734806233745887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119370","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=119370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}