{"id":775086,"date":"2026-07-01T05:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/775086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:06:15","slug":"reports-forward-dean-wade-opts-to-sign-4-year-deal-with-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/775086\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Forward Dean Wade opts to sign 4-year deal with 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2254567\" class=\"wp-image-2254567 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages_DeanWade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2254567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Wade, a versatile forward, has played all seven years of his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Wade is moving on from the only team he\u2019s ever known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2072146838933713340?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN reported Tuesday<\/a> that Wade will be signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on a four-year deal for $39 million. The Associated Press also reported on Wade\u2019s signing with the 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>Wade, a versatile forward, has played all seven years of his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s averaged 5.3 points per game and shot 36.7% on 3-pointers in 342 career games, and he\u2019s started 160 of the 342 games he\u2019s played.<\/p>\n<p>Wade, 29 years old, started a career-high 38 games for the Cavaliers in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>He played a key role for Cleveland in the playoffs this season, averaging more than 20 minutes against both Detroit and Toronto and 19.8 minutes in the conference finals against the eventual champion Knicks.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free agent forward Dean Wade has agreed to a four-year, $39 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, sources tell ESPN. Several contenders pursued the former Cavaliers forward, who has become an indispensable defending and shooting frontcourt piece. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VSw15tkITO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VSw15tkITO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2072146838933713340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean Wade, a versatile forward, has played all seven years of his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Dean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[679,7,306,305,193,3846,5759,6,6087],"class_list":["post-775086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-dean-wade","tag-nba","tag-signing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116842986683015172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775086","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=775086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}