{"id":438204,"date":"2023-06-20T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438204"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:05:09","slug":"torontos-guard-trent-jr-to-opt-into-his-player-option","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/torontos-guard-trent-jr-to-opt-into-his-player-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto\u2019s guard Trent Jr. to opt into his player option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> player Gary Trent Jr. decided to opt into his almost 19-million-dollar player option for the upcoming season; his agents told Chris Haynes of TNT.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gary Trent Jr. and the Raps are reportedly working on a longer term deal after Trent opts into his $18.5M player option, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChrisBHaynes<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NVn4wp1sN9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NVn4wp1sN9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1671215334806659072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If he declined his option, he would have become a free agent next month.<\/p>\n<p>The reporters called the decision a surprise as now the guard will probably try to get a great deal next summer during the free agency or sign a long-term contract with the Canadian franchise. Both Raptors and Trent Jr. will discuss that.<\/p>\n<p>With him back on the roster, Toronto will have difficulty getting Fred VanVleet and Jakob Poeltl back at market value, as they will have to pay a luxury tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Raptors player Gary Trent Jr. decided to opt into his almost 19-million-dollar player option for the upcoming season; his agents told Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438205,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17079],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20000,18089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"His manager confirmed the news.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438204"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438204"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}