Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n
The Kings have locked down one of their top stars on a new deal.<\/p>\n
On Thursday night, Malik Monk agreed to a four-year deal worth $78 million, including a player option, according to ESPN\u2019s Adrian Wojnarowski.<\/p>\n
The Kings, who failed to advance out of the play-in round, were hoping the guard would return during free agency after he recorded a career-best 15.4 points and 5.1 assists per game in 2023-24. <\/p>\n
They got their wish.<\/p>\n
Monk, 26, was the league\u2019s Sixth Man of the Year runner-up after his strong campaign.<\/p>\n
Monk could have started hearing from other teams on June 30 when free agency officially opens up for players to openly and legally communicate with teams on the open market.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the Kings\u2019 De\u2019Aaron Fox spoke to reporters and said he had not talked to Monk about his free-agent decision since the season ended.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really ask him about it. \u2026 I\u2019m not sure,\u201d Fox told ABC10. \u201cWe\u2019re friends first. \u2026I\u2019m not really asking him anything about free agency.\u201d<\/p>\n
ESPN Sources: Free agent G Malik Monk intends to sign a four-year, $78 million deal \u2014 including a player option \u2014 to return to the Sacramento Kings. Monk had career-bests of 15 points and five assists on his way to the NBA\u2019s Sixth Man of the Year runner-up. pic.twitter.com\/J8KuOwPl0H\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 21, 2024<\/p>\n
\u201cHim being able to be in this situation and obviously having multiple teams that are trying to come after him, I\u2019m definitely happy for him,\u201d Fox added. \u201cObviously, we want him to stay but, at the end of the day, he has to do what\u2019s best for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The upcoming season will be Monk\u2019s third in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Monk spent four years in Charlotte after he was drafted by the Hornets in the first round (11th pick) of the 2017 NBA Draft, followed by a one-season stint with the Lakers before going to the Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic The Kings have locked down one of their top stars on a new deal. On Thursday night, Malik Monk agreed to a four-year deal worth $78 million, including a player option, according to ESPN\u2019s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Kings, who failed to advance out of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-134000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134002,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000\/revisions\/134002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}