{"id":124914,"date":"2025-06-26T01:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/124914\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:11:09","slug":"john-collins-exercises-his-26-5m-player-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/124914\/","title":{"rendered":"John Collins exercises his $26.5M player option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"sxOotU\">According to multiple reports, John Collins has exercised his player option on his contract.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Utah Jazz big man John Collins has exercised his $26.5 million player option for the 2025-26 season, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AVzRIjrcx7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AVzRIjrcx7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1937986299354300893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"xVRBpr\">The option is for $26.5 M, and it\u2019s not surprising that Collins would opt in for that amount. I\u2019m sure his management looked at all their options and considered potential deals that might be available, but it\u2019s not a robust market for teams with cap space. <\/p>\n<p id=\"aLPQ4x\">That said, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slcdunk.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> forward quietly had the best year of his career, and you could argue that he was the best player on the Jazz this season. Collins had a near 50\/40\/90 season and was at those numbers for a lot of the season. He was so good that Utah had to rest him multiple times to make sure they lost games. <\/p>\n<p id=\"oXTthP\">Now that he\u2019s opted into his contract, which has long been looked at as too large, it becomes more valuable because it\u2019s expiring. There is a lot of value for a player of his caliber who could play for a contender and also provide cap relief. Utah is likely looking for trade partners, and this makes things more likely. It\u2019s also interesting that this happens right before the draft. Could it mean he gets moved?<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to multiple reports, John Collins has exercised his player option on his contract. Utah Jazz big man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,2198,343,25322,28,1344,595,4422,307,152,3954,6,5893,18,342,308,6129],"class_list":{"0":"post-124914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-collins","10":"tag-dunk","11":"tag-exercises","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-his","14":"tag-john","15":"tag-m","16":"tag-minnesota","17":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","18":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-option","21":"tag-player","22":"tag-slc","23":"tag-timberwolves","24":"tag-utah-jazz-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114747007708419666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914","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=124914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}