{"id":694939,"date":"2026-04-03T00:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:33:18","slug":"utah-jazz-sign-bez-mbeng-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694939\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz sign Bez Mbeng to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Utah Jazz are signing Bez Mbeng to a two-year contract, according to Shams Charania via Mbeng\u2019s agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This comes after hearing from Sarah Todd that Mbeng would be signed through the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is great news for Mbeng, who brings defensive intensity to the Jazz on the perimeter. It\u2019s a sign of a couple of things for the Jazz. The first being they are looking to solidify their guard depth. The other being a clear focus on improving defensively. It\u2019s well known that Mbeng was a great defender in college, and it\u2019s clear the Jazz are hoping he can continue to improve as a defensive prospect. As Todd mentions, Summer League will be next for Mbeng, who now has a chance to prove he\u2019s an NBA player. In his short time with the Jazz, the effort is definitely there. The question for Mbeng now is, does the production follow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz are signing Bez Mbeng to a two-year contract, according to Shams Charania via Mbeng\u2019s agent.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,37786,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-694939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-jazz-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337967584519535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694939","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=694939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}