Santi Aldama Rumors

Memphis Grizzlies PR: The @Memphis Grizzlies today announced the team re-signed Santi Aldama to a multi-year contract.

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Drew Hill: News: Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama was named to the Board of Directors for the NBA Players Association Foundation. In the role he will serve as advisor to the global programs, approve grant funding, and identify new opportunities for global social impact. He's had a big July

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Drew Hill: Santi Aldama got married yesterday.

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Spain announced its 15-man roster for EuroBasket 2025—headlined by NBAer Santi Aldama—and confirmed that legendary coach Sergio Scariolo will step down after leading the national team to eight major medals.

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Shams Charania: Restricted free agent Santi Aldama has agreed to a three-year, $52.5 million deal to return to the Memphis Grizzlies, sources tell ESPN. CAA’s Austin Brown, Steven Heumann and Max Sadiman finalized the deal with the Grizzlies for Aldama, who had a career year last season.

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Keith Smith: Memphis will keep Santi Aldama's cap hold on their books, but will create the cap space necessary to renegotiate-and-extend Jackson through other moves.

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There was a growing anticipation as 6 PM ET approached that Memphis is indeed poised to secure a commitment from the in-demand Ty Jerome. The ultimate price point for such a deal remains critical to the Grizzlies' other offseason goals: Completing a renegotiation-and-extension with Jaren Jackson Jr. Jr. and maintaining sufficient flexibility to match offers to restricted free agent Santi Aldama.

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Chris Herrington: Haven’t seen this anywhere, but in addition to a qualifying offer for Santi Aldama, the Grizzlies also extended a two-way qualifying offer to make Cam Spencer a restricted free agent.

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Michael Scotto: Sources: The Memphis Grizzlies have tendered Santi Aldama his one-year, $5.94 million qualifying offer, making him a restricted free agent. Aldama averaged career-highs in points (12.5), field goal % (.483), 3-point % (.368), rebound (6.4) and assists (2.9) for the Grizzlies.

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Chris Herrington: Rumor season, but hard to see path to Grizz signing/acquiring Jerome or NAW that fits with JJJ extension, which they’re definitely trying to do. Not sure freeing up Aldama cap hold does it. Maybe a 3-team deal with Anthony going out, but I suspect they’ll need that for JJJ room.

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Zach Lowe: "Because Santi Aldama has full mid-level deals, I think, waiting for him. At least that's the scuttlebutt I've heard: that he is sought after enough by a team like Detroit, for instance, with the full mid-level. There's a lot of teams with the full mid-level. He's an interesting kind of combination of skills, and I think they're going to have to pay to retain him. And when you have full mid-level deals, if you do in the open market, your incumbent team might have to pay a little bit more than that using your bird rights to do it, and then they'd have the salary cap room exception on top of that."

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Sources say that Memphis, in the wake of the Desmond Bane trade, is focused on preserving as much financial flexibility as possible to renegotiate-and-extend the contract of star forward Jaren Jackson Jr. as well as fending off external interest in restricted free agent Santi Aldama.

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Grizzlies and other teams believe the Pistons could emerge as a possible threat to pursue restricted free agent Santi Aldama as well.

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Joel Lorenzi: Santi Aldama on the Thunder: “They’re a great team. I think, in the playoffs especially, against a team that won however many games they have, you need to have a perfect game.”

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