{"id":15897,"date":"2018-07-01T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2018-07-01T01:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:06:44","slug":"derrick-rose-agrees-to-contract-with-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2018\/07\/01\/derrick-rose-agrees-to-contract-with-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Derrick Rose Agrees to Re-Sign with Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/minnesota-timberwolves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> have agreed to sign unrestricted free agent point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosede01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derrick Rose<\/a> to a contract worth $2.1 million over one year. The contract cannot officially be signed until the end of the NBA\u2019s moratorium period on July 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! Sports NBA insider <strong>Shams Charania<\/strong> broke the news:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: Derrick Rose has agreed to a one-year, $2.1M deal to re-sign with Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1013284076135112704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Minnesota Timberwolves Re-Sign Derrick Rose to One-Year Contract<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Rose&#8217;s contract will take him through the end of the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>Rose averaged 8.4 points, 1.4 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game last season for the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and Minnesota Timberwolves. However, in what was a disappointing season, Rose will look to bounce back this time around. Playing just 25 games for two different teams, last season was awful for the former MVP. Injuries and motivational problems ended his time in Cleveland, he lasted just 16 games. Traded to Utah, Rose was waived after just two days. Picked up by Minnesota, Rose went on to play a role in the playoffs, but the Timberwolves were beaten by the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/houston-rockets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Rockets<\/a> in five games.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, Rose will provide good scoring and playmaking at point guard spot for Minnesota. Known for his attacking style on the court, Rose will look to become a reliable scoring option for his new team. The Timberwolves will need Rose to stay healthy and bounce back from last year\u2019s struggles in order to contend for a playoff spot in the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>Rose is going into his 10th season in the league, during which he\u2019ll be 30 years old. Until this point, he\u2019s played for four teams, after being drafted No.1 overall by the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/chicago-bulls\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Image:<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Rose has signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves for the remainder of the season, according to a report. Credit: Wikipedia Commons\/Erik Drost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to sign unrestricted free agent point guard Derrick Rose to a contract worth $2.1 million over one year. The contract cannot officially be signed until the end of the NBA\u2019s moratorium period on July 6th. Yahoo! Sports NBA insider Shams Charania broke the news: Sources: Derrick Rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":13010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1608,21,3],"tags":[65,39,95,214,96,297,202],"class_list":["post-15897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-basketball","category-timberwolves","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-derrick-rose","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-news"],"modified_by":"Daniel Richeson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}