{"id":8376,"date":"2017-09-27T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2017-09-27T14:07:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:07:51","slug":"jamychal-green-re-signs-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/09\/27\/jamychal-green-re-signs-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: JaMychal Green Re-Signs With Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies have re-signed restricted free agent power forward\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greenja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JaMychal Green<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to a contract worth $17 million over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Shams Charania of The Vertical broke the news on Wednesday afternoon:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RFA JaMychal Green is finalizing a two-year, $17M-plus deal to return to the Memphis Grizzlies, league sources tell The Vertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/913097059829534720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>JaMychal Green Re-Signs With Memphis Grizzlies\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Green&#8217;s new deal will take him through the end of the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>Green averaged 8.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game last season for the \u00a0Grizzlies. Showing significant improvements ever year, Green appeared in 77 games for Memphis in 2016-17, starting 75 of them. This past NBA season, Green posted career highs in minutes played, rebounds, assists, points, free throw shooting, and three-point percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, Green will look to demonstrate even more improvement for Memphis, as a capable starter or spark off the bench. Averaging 37.9% from three-point territory, Green will need to keep that number consistent heading into next season. For the 6&#8217;9 power forward, the league has transitioned to where the long-range shot is ever so valuable. The Grizzlies will need Green to continue evolving as an NBA player in order to compete for a playoff spot in the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>Green\u00a0is going into his third season in the league, during which he\u2019ll be 27 years old. After being undrafted back in the 2012\u00a0NBA Draft, Green has demonstrated a strong work ethic and commitment to improving his overall game. Look to see Green continue his improvement; averaging a double-double and contending for the 2018 NBA Most Improved Player award is a likely possibility.<\/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\" 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\/580186348\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 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\/580186348?et=bcMQ-GGnRaJ3oTgJlki1Vg&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=yM0tC13w8PToHdxE53S70B4JUOeaHNa7Fcmzf_Bv3v0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restricted free agent power forward JaMychal Green re-signs with the Memphis Grizzlies on a two-year, $17 million contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":8380,"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":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,62,3],"tags":[65,451,207,96,202],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grizzlies","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-jamychal-green","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-nba-news"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}