{"id":694318,"date":"2026-04-02T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:46:18","slug":"jazz-to-sign-bez-mbeng-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694318\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz To Sign Bez Mbeng To Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11:31 am: Mbeng will be signing a two-year contract, agent Jason Tranos tells ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2039740614468653128\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). While Charania doesn\u2019t provide any additional details, that second year is unlikely to be guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-470260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bez-Mbeng-Jazz-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>7:43 am: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mbengbe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-02_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bez Mbeng<\/a>\u2018s second 10-day contract with the Jazz expired on Wednesday night, but he won\u2019t be going anywhere, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2026\/04\/01\/bez-mbeng-to-sign-with-jazz-for-remainder-of-2025-26-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sarah Todd of The Deseret News<\/a>. According to Todd, Utah will be signing Mbeng for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeng, 22, made 11 appearances during his first 20 days with the Jazz after first joining the team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/03\/jazz-to-add-bez-mbeng-on-10-day-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on March 13<\/a>. The 6\u20194\u2033 shooting guard played regular rotation minutes during that time for a banged-up Utah squad, averaging 5.0 points, 3.4 assists, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.7 steals in 29.9 minutes per night.<\/p>\n<p>While Mbeng\u2019s shooting numbers (.429\/.167\/.667) have been modest, the Jazz have apparently liked what they\u2019ve seen from the former Yale star, especially on defense. The 22-year-old, who earned three Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year awards from 2023-25 before going undrafted last June, spent most of his rookie year with the Sioux Falls Skyforce, Miami\u2019s G League affiliate, until he signed with Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz would have the ability to sign Mbeng to a multiyear deal, though Todd doesn\u2019t confirm that\u2019s the plan. We\u2019ll have to wait for the full details of the agreement to confirm the terms, but if it\u2019s just a rest-of-season contract, the guard would be eligible for restricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeng earned $73,153 on each of his two 10-day deals. If he officially re-signs on Thursday, a rest-of-season minimum-salary contract would pay him slightly more than that ($80,469), for a total of $226,775 on top of the salary he earned in the G League.<\/p>\n<p>Once Mbeng is signed, the Jazz will have have 14 players on full-season or multiyear standard contracts, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/chandke01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-02_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kennedy Chandler<\/a> filling the 15th roster spot on a 10-day deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11:31 am: Mbeng will be signing a two-year contract, agent Jason Tranos tells ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania (Twitter link).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,24774,423,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-694318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bez-mbeng","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116336368566922775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694318","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=694318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}