{"id":13331,"date":"2025-06-29T16:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/eric-gordon-declines-option-with-76ers-and-heads-to-free-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T20:53:41","slug":"eric-gordon-declines-option-with-76ers-and-heads-to-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/eric-gordon-declines-option-with-76ers-and-heads-to-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Gordon declines option with 76ers and heads to free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Eric Gordon Explores Free Agency After Rejecting Option with the 76ers<\/h2>\n<p>Philadelphia 76ers guard Eric Gordon has decided to decline his $3.4 million player option to explore free agency, according to sources close to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is still the possibility of Gordon returning to the 76ers, this decision opens a new chapter in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon signed a two-year contract last summer, and if he had exercised his option, the Sixers would have had a $3.4 million impact on their salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>According to the analysis, by opting for free agency and possibly renegotiating a one-year contract, the impact on the salary cap would be reduced to $2.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>At 36 years old, Gordon completed his seventeenth season in the NBA, playing 19.7 minutes per game and averaging 6.8 points, the lowest figure of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Gordon was hired to add depth to a team with title aspirations. However, injuries affected the 76ers&#8217; performance early in the season, leading Gordon to take on a more significant role, including 13 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Gordon proved to be a consistent shooter, with a 40.9% success rate on three-point shots last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Gordon Explores Free Agency After Rejecting Option with the 76ers Philadelphia 76ers guard Eric Gordon has decided to decline his $3.4 million player option to explore free agency, according to sources close to the situation. Although there is still the possibility of Gordon returning to the 76ers, this decision opens a new chapter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[352,5009,375,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-13331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-eric-gordon","10":"tag-free-agency","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}