{"id":349703,"date":"2025-10-18T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/349703\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:45:09","slug":"pelicans-pick-up-2026-27-options-on-hawkins-missi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/349703\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans Pick Up 2026\/27 Options On Hawkins, Missi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pelicans have picked up their fourth-year option on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hawkijo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jordan Hawkins<\/a> and their third-year option on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/missiyv01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yves Missi<\/a>, Spotrac contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithke06.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keith Smith<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1979524754240422145\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a>. The duo now have their rookie scale contracts guaranteed through the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins, the 14th overall pick of the 2023 draft out of UConn, will make $7,021,895 next season. Missi, who was selected with the No. 21 pick out of Baylor\u00a0 last year, will pull in $3,512,760 next season.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins missed some time due to back pain last season but wound up appearing in 56 games, including nine starts. He averaged 10.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 23.6 minutes per game. Prized for his shooting prowess, he only made 37.1 percent of his overall attempts and 33.1 percent of his 3-point tries. He\u2019s projected to back up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murphtr02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trey Murphy III<\/a> at the shooting guard spot this season.<\/p>\n<p>Missi was one of the league\u2019s top rookies last season. He appeared in 73 games, including 67 starts, and averaged 9.1 points, 8.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.3 blocks in 26.8 minutes per game. He\u2019s expected to retain his starting center spot this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pelicans have picked up their fourth-year option on Jordan Hawkins and their third-year option on Yves Missi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,5316,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,1259],"class_list":{"0":"post-349703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jordan-hawkins","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanspelicans","15":"tag-pelicans","16":"tag-yves-missi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115395476125586317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349703","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=349703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}