{"id":696465,"date":"2026-04-03T20:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696465\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:02:14","slug":"zach-lavines-future-with-kings-becomes-clear-in-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696465\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach LaVine&#8217;s Future With Kings Becomes Clear in New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings will have a slew of big decisions to make this offseason, and with just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/kings\/onsi\/sacramento-kings-news\/predicting-sacramento-kings-final-five-regular-season-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five games left<\/a> in the 2025-26 regular season, the clock is almost ticking. Of course, the futures of head coach Doug Christie and star center Domantas Sabonis headline those decisions, while Zach LaVine has his own personal choice to make that will impact the Kings. <\/p>\n<p>LaVine, a two-time NBA All-Star, has a player option worth just under $49 million next season. While the Kings would love for LaVine to decline the option and hit the open market, he is reportedly expected to opt into the player option to stay in Sacramento for the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s start with Zach LaVine, who&#8217;s got a $49 million player option. I&#8217;m told that he&#8217;s gonna end up exercising that option,&#8221; NBA insider Michael Scotto reported. &#8220;So, for Sacramento, you&#8217;re gonna have him on the books for another year, $49 million.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings will have a slew of big decisions to make this offseason, and with just five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-696465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-kings","13":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116342564829405465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696465","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=696465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}