{"id":485712,"date":"2024-07-28T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T11:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485712"},"modified":"2024-07-28T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T11:05:04","slug":"suns-inking-jones-to-fill-point-guard-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/suns-inking-jones-to-fill-point-guard-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns inking Jones to fill point guard vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent Tyus Jones, the highest-rated remaining guard, has agreed on a 1-year, 3.3 million dollar contract with the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Tyus is a huge addition for Phoenix, who struggled without a true point guard in the past campaign. The guard, who averaged 12 points and over 7 assists for the Wizards in last season, will get the opportunity to be crucial part of the West Conference contender and to secure a better deal when he become free agent after the end of the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The cap-strapped Phoenix had only the veterans minimum to give Tyus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opportunity to compete for the Phoenix Suns made the most sense on a lot of levels to me and my family &#8212; starting with the way owner Mat Ishbia and the front office wanted me to how manager [Mike Budenholzer] showed me how I can be a crucial part of the organization that has a great chance to compete for the NBA championship as their starting point guard,&#8221; Tyus revealed today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highest AST\/TOV ratio in a season (last 45 seasons):<\/p>\n<p>7.35 \u2014 Tyus Jones<br \/>7.04 \u2014 Tyus Jones<br \/>6.96 \u2014 Tyus Jones<\/p>\n<p>Suns got a PG. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZMPuL5Wv8I\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZMPuL5Wv8I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1817301243276239240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 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>Free agent Tyus Jones, the highest-rated remaining guard, has agreed on a 1-year, 3.3 million dollar contract with the Phoenix Suns. Tyus is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485713,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17557,20037,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Phoenix signing Tyus on a 1-year deal.","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\/485712"}],"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=485712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485714,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485712\/revisions\/485714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485712"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485712"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}