{"id":771137,"date":"2023-01-17T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=771137"},"modified":"2023-01-17T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:38:11","slug":"report-fred-vanvleet-drawing-free-agent-interest-from-phoenix-and-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/report-fred-vanvleet-drawing-free-agent-interest-from-phoenix-and-orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Fred VanVleet Drawing Free Agent Interest from Phoenix and Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Fred+VanVleet\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Fred+VanVleet\" target=\"_blank\">Fred VanVleet<\/a> is reportedly drawing free agent interest from the Phoenix Suns and Orlando Magic, according to NBA insider Shams Charania of the Athletic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that this scenario could play ou<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/fred-vanvleet-sounds-off-on-being-a-toronto-raptor-lifer\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/fred-vanvleet-sounds-off-on-being-a-toronto-raptor-lifer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">t IF VanVleet decides to opt-out<\/a> of his player option next summer. VanVleet rose to prominence after signing with the Raptors as an undrafted free agent in 2016. As a rookie, he played in Toronto and with their G League affiliate. The following season he came off the bench and played in 76 regular season games with the Raptors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VanVleet eventually <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/fred-vanvleet-leads-the-raptorsbyexample\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/fred-vanvleet-leads-the-raptorsbyexample\/\" target=\"_blank\">played a prominent role<\/a> in Toronto winning their <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/demar-derozan-fred-vanvleet-is-one-of-the-best-point-guards-in-the-league\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/demar-derozan-fred-vanvleet-is-one-of-the-best-point-guards-in-the-league\/\" target=\"_blank\">first-ever title in 2019<\/a>. In 2022, he became the fifth undrafted player to make the All-Star game in 2021. VanVleet is averaging 18.2 points, 6.3 assists, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.5 steals per game this season. He&#8217;s played in 36 games thus far, missing eight contests due to a back injury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VanVleet&#8217;s four-year deal that he signed in 2020 could expire this offseason if he doesn&#8217;t sign his player option. He&#8217;s making $21.3 million this season and could make $22.8 million if he does pick up the extra year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VanVleet and Toronto are set to play the Milwaukee Bucks on the road on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred VanVleet is reportedly drawing free agent interest from the Phoenix Suns and Orlando Magic, according to NBA insider Shams Charania of the Athletic. It&#8217;s important to note that this scenario could play out IF VanVleet decides to opt-out of his player option next summer. VanVleet rose to prominence after signing with the Raptors as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":771144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,63826,62493,62720],"tags":[64859,9964,95],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-771137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","category-toronto-raptors","tag-2023-free-agent","tag-fred-vanvleet","tag-toronto-raptors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771149,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771137\/revisions\/771149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771137"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=771137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}