{"id":798248,"date":"2026-07-29T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/798248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:00:24","slug":"nuggets-match-thunders-offer-sheet-and-bring-back-spencer-jones-for-3rd-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/798248\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets match Thunder&#8217;s offer sheet and bring back Spencer Jones for 3rd season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Spencer Jones will return to Denver for a third season after the team matched the Oklahoma City Thunder&#8217;s offer sheet, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nuggets\/status\/2081585491804332512\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nuggets announced<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder had offered a guaranteed two-year, $12 million offer sheet, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets signed Jones out of Stanford as a free agent in 2024. His retention as a restricted free agent brings with it severe financial implications for Denver, which faces a $32 million increase in current luxury taxes, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>Jones started 37 of 64 games last season and averaged 5.5 points and 3.3 rebounds. He shot an NBA-best 69.2% on 3-pointers in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Coloradans making a difference | Denver7 featured videos<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-left\">Denver7 is committed to making a difference in our community by standing up for what&#8217;s right, listening, lending a helping hand and following through on promises. See that work in action, in the videos above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Spencer Jones will return to Denver for a third season after the team matched the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[4213,877,7,4214,561,4215,4216,761,4217,4218,4219,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":["post-798248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-2024-denver-nuggets-roster","tag-aaron-gordon","tag-basketball","tag-braxton-key","tag-christian-braun","tag-coach-of-the-denver-nuggets","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-deandre-jordan","tag-den","tag-denver-nuggets-basketball-schedule","tag-denver-nuggets-coach","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-thunder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117000327864733155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798248","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=798248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}