{"id":482722,"date":"2024-05-05T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482722"},"modified":"2024-05-05T00:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T04:51:23","slug":"bulls-ball-picks-up-21-4-million-dollar-player-option","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bulls-ball-picks-up-21-4-million-dollar-player-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls\u2019 Ball picks up 21.4 million dollar player option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the last 2-plus campaigns with a knee problem, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> player Lonzo Ball has exercised the 21.4 million dollar option on his deal for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls guard has undergone 3 procedures on his left knee, the most recent a cartilage transplant in the past year. There remains some believe that we will see him play in 2024-25 season, but there are no assurances after the surgeries that he went through that he will be able to compete in the NBA ever again.<\/p>\n<p>Lonzo (26) inked an original 4-year, 80 million dollar contract as part of a sign-and-trade with New Orleans during the offseason in 2021. After a phenomenal beginning with his new team that saw Chicago leading in the East in 2021-22, he averaged 13.0 points, almost 6 boards, over 5 assists, and almost 2 steals before a knee problem 35 matches into the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He was the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall selection at the draft in 2017 as the Lakers picked him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lonzo Ball picks up his $21.4M player option next season with the Bulls \ud83d\udcb0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tbeZl3qVgV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tbeZl3qVgV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1786860098813640961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the last 2-plus campaigns with a knee problem, Chicago Bulls player Lonzo Ball has exercised the 21.4 million dollar option on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482723,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16719,22900,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18347,22901,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Lonzo picked up the player option for the upcoming season.","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\/482722"}],"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=482722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482738,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482722\/revisions\/482738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482722"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482722"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}