{"id":8033,"date":"2017-07-01T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2017-07-01T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T20:34:50","slug":"jeff-teague-agrees-contract-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/07\/01\/jeff-teague-agrees-contract-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jeff Teague Agrees to Contract With Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to sign unrestricted free agent point guard<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/teaguje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Teague<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to a contract that will pay him $57 million over three years. The contract cannot officially be signed until the end of the NBA&#8217;s moratorium period on July 6th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shams Charania<\/strong> of <em>The Vertical<\/em> broke the news right at midnight on Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jeff Teague has agreed to a three-year, $57M deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, league sources tell The Vertical. 3rd-year player option.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/880999412704653314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jeff Teague Agrees to Three-Year Contract With Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Teague&#8217;s contract will take him through the end of the 2019-20 season. He has a player option for the third year, meaning that Teague can choose to opt out and become a free agent again in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Teague averaged 15.3 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 7.8 assists per game last season for the Indiana Pacers. Starting all 82 games, Teague became the first Pacer to start every regular season game since <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=dunlemi02,dunlemi01&amp;search=Mike+Dunleavy&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Dunleavy<\/a><\/strong> in 2008. A regular feature in Indiana, Teague helped <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcmilna01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate McMillan&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> team secure a playoff spot. Alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/turnemy01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Myles Turner<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul George<\/a><\/strong>, Teague was a key player. Swept in the first-round of the playoffs by the Cleveland Cavaliers, Teague averaged 17 points and 6.3 assists over the four games.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward,\u00a0Teague will provide solid guard play, capable of scoring and creating whilst consistently running an offense at the point guard position for Minnesota. An All-Star in 2015, Teague will look to regain that form for his new team. The Timberwolves will need Teague to provide strong play at the point guard spot in order to contend for their first playoff appearance in more than a decade \u2013 and possibly a high seed in the Western Conference \u2013 during the 2017-18 campaign. Teague replaces long-tenured point guard <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rubiori01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ricky Rubio<\/a><\/strong> in Minnesota, who <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/06\/30\/minnesota-timberwolves-trade-ricky-rubio-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was traded to Utah<\/a> just hours before the beginning of free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Teague is heading into his ninth season in the league, during which he&#8217;ll be 29 years old. Until this point, he&#8217;s played for just two teams. Starting his NBA career with the Atlanta Hawks, Teague was traded to Indiana in 2016. After eight seasons in Atlanta, Teague joined the Pacers, going on to average a career high in assists last season.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the LWOS 2017 NBA Free Agency Tracker for all of your NBA free agency coverage, and be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LastWordHoops?lang=en-gb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow @LastWordHoops<\/a> on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest NBA news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/631566094\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 68.181818% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/631566094?et=wCNnWlH6RMRmWsf4wsDrPQ&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=hMMVqvSMGH_q7CjpIfWdYm4yIHF4iKsgPRgtlQy1EXE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, unrestricted free agent point guard Jeff Teague agrees to a contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":8121,"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":[21,11,62,3],"tags":[65,49,200,214,96,297,202],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-timberwolves","category-pacers","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-jeff-teague","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-news"],"modified_by":"Harrison Marcus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","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=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}