The Jazz have agreed to signal veteran level guard Patty Mills to a one-year contract, sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Wojnarowski says it’s a $3.3M deal, which is equal to Mills’ minimum salary for 2024-25 ($3,303,771). It is going to be absolutely assured, Woj provides.
Mills, who turned 36 on August 11, might be coming into his sixteenth NBA season this fall. The 2009 second-round choose has appeared in 892 whole regular-season video games for 5 groups and spent most of his prime years in San Antonio, the place he received a title in 2014 and overlapped with present Jazz head coach Will Hardy from 2015-21, when Hardy was an assistant on Gregg Popovich‘s workers.
Mills has seen his enjoying time and manufacturing fall off in recent times. In 2023-24, he appeared in 32 video games for the Hawks and Warmth and averaged simply 4.0 factors, 1.1 assists and 1.1 rebounds in 13.0 minutes per sport whereas capturing 35.1% from the sphere and 27.6% from the past the arc, far beneath his profession averages of 42.4% and 38.6%, respectively.
Nonetheless, the Australian confirmed throughout this yr’s Paris Olympics that he nonetheless has one thing left within the tank. He averaged 16.5 PPG with a .409 3PT% over the course of the Boomers’ 4 video games.
Mills figures to function a locker room chief and a mentor for the Jazz’s younger gamers, together with second-year guard Keyonte George. He tasks to fill the fifteenth and last spot on Utah’s roster, offering depth at level guard.
The membership is carrying 14 different gamers on normal assured contracts, in addition to three gamers on two-way offers. Whereas it’s doable the entrance workplace will proceed to wheel and deal throughout the remainder of the offseason and preseason, the group’s roster will basically be regular-season-ready as soon as Mills is formally signed.
