The Suns have exercised their 2023/24 team option on Ish Wainright‘s contract, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets. The option will pay Wainright a salary of $1,927,896 for next season.
Wainright, 28, has played the last two seasons for Phoenix. This past year, he appeared in 60 regular-season games (two starts), averaging 4.2 points and 2.3 rebounds in 15.3 minutes per game. He also saw action in six postseason contests.
With four maximum-salary players on the books, Phoenix needs to fill out its roster with low-cost options and Wainwright was productive enough to retain his spot. He’s also considered an above-average defender.
He originally joined the team on a two-way contract, which was converted to a standard contract in February.
In addition to a temporary attempt at switching to football, the 6’6″, 250-pound combo forward also played international basketball in Germany and France.
Matt ISHbia. ISH wainwright. Can someone connect the dots? Silver needs to take a look…
This is the type of guys the Phoenix Suns will have on their roster when you paying Devin Booker Kevin Durant Bradley Beal and Deandre Ayton so much money. Outside of Cameron Payne everybody else might have to be on the veterans minimum. At the end of the day I love me some Frank Vogel and love that he has a really good roster to coach and was able to pick his staff. He’s a championship head coach with defense first mentality and should get treated that way.