{"id":1426,"date":"2020-11-23T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2020-11-23T23:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:21:34","slug":"aussie-nba-star-joins-title-contenders-on-20m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Aussie NBA star joins title contenders on $20m deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian NBA star Aron Baynes is set to sign a two-year, $14.3 million deal ($20m AUD) with the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Baynes, 33, will depart the Pheonix Suns having spent just one season with the basketball club. He had previously spent two seasons with the Boston Celtics before arriving in Pheonix last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1330674168346644481\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1330674168346644481<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the 208 centimetre Aussie couldn&#x27;t have come at a better time for the Raptors who were notified earlier today that their fellow big-man, Marc Gasol, would depart for the LA Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Baynes will join the 2019 NBA champions coming off a career-high season with the Suns where he averaged 11.5 points and 5.6 rebounds per game while shooting just over 35% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"55baee49-9d51-4091-97c3-15677b96ca61\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/55baee49-9d51-4091-97c3-15677b96ca61\" alt=\"Aron Baynes\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other NBA free agency news, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/basketball\/nba-free-agency-news-jayson-tatum-earns-huge-deal-with-boston-donovan-mitchell\/01f3dd66-4b71-4274-9d69-398679e08e4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"All-Stars Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell both inked life-changing deals\">All-Stars Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell both inked life-changing deals<\/a> with their respective teams.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum, 22, signed the richest deal of this free agency, a five-year $US195m ($266m AUD) rookie max extension to remain with the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>While Mitchell, 22, also agreed to a five-year $US195m ($266m AUD) extension to remain with the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"bb98e583-535a-4b5f-bfd7-cc2d1a07a8bf\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/bb98e583-535a-4b5f-bfd7-cc2d1a07a8bf\" alt=\"Jayson Tatum\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian NBA star Aron Baynes is set to sign a two-year, $14.3 million deal ($20m AUD) with the Toronto Raptors. Baynes, 33, will depart the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1426\" title=\"Aussie NBA star joins title contenders on $20m deal\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}