The Kings are signing Dennis Schröder to a three-year contract worth $45MM, reports ESPN’s Shams Charania (Twitter link). The deal will be fully guaranteed through two years, with a partial guarantee on the third season, per Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports (Twitter link).
Marc Stein and Jake Fischer reported a few hours before free agency opened that the German guard was expected to sign with Sacramento for the full non-taxpayer mid-level exception, while Fred Katz of The Athletic (Twitter link) said on Monday evening that Schröder would agree to a deal with Sacramento.
Those earlier reports pointed toward a two-year deal, but Schröder will get an extra year. It still could be a non-taxpayer MLE deal, which would be worth roughly $44.4MM over three years, though a sign-and-trade is a possibility — contracts signed via sign-and-trade must cover at least three seasons, which may explain the additional year.
There were rumors on Monday that Detroit and Sacramento were exploring a deal that would include Malik Monk. The Kings could also acquire Schröder via sign-and-trade using a sizable trade exception they created earlier this year. In that scenario, they wouldn’t have to send out any matching salary.
According to Goodwill, no sign-and-trade has been agreed to at this point, but that could change in the coming days.
After spending his first five NBA seasons in Atlanta, Schröder has bounced around the league over the past seven years, playing for eight different teams. That was particularly true of the 2024/25 campaign, when he was traded from Brooklyn to Golden State in December and then rerouted to Detroit before the February deadline.
Overall, the former first-round pick (No. 17 overall in 2013) played in 75 games last season, including 48 starts (28.1 minutes per contest), averaging 13.1 points, 5.4 assists and 2.6 rebounds on .406/.342/.838 shooting. He also had a strong playoff showing for the Pistons, averaging 12.5 PPG, 3.7 APG, 2.5 RPG and 1.2 SPG on .491/.476/.813 shooting in six games during the team’s first-round loss to New York (27.3 MPG).
Schröder, who turns 32 years old in September, will provide speed, ball-handling, and point-of-attack defense to a Kings team in need of point guard help after trading De’Aaron Fox to San Antonio in February. He marks the first significant free agent addition of the new front office, which is led by general manager Scott Perry.
Rumors: Schroeder for monk straight up
Pistons are smart
Kings need cost saving
Kings are unlikely to recover within 5 years after getting rid of two young stars
What 2 stars they get rid of?
Haliburton and Fox
I remember when the MLE used to be around 5 million lol.
After watching him with teh warriors i don’t see why he is that good? He looks average on both offense and defense. He looks like a back up PG off the bench. His numbers with the Nets were inflated playing for a bad team.
I think he proved himself in the playoffs with the Pistons. Not easy to find a point guard in FA that you feel comfortable deploying in big moments during the postseason.
He’s been around forever, He was awesome for OKC and Atlanta, as he was for Detroit last year. Some systems are better for him than others. He’s long been a mid tier starter, high end back up.
A player that is average on BOTH offense and defense is actually pretty rare. So many players can only do one or the other and are huge liabilities on the other side, like Damian Lillard, who can’t guard a traffic cone, or Mitchell Robinson, who can’t shoot a 3 over one.
I remember when the Schroeder story was how he supposedly left an $84 million contract offer from the Lakers on the table. Dennis has done ok for himself recouping that money.
Credit to Dennis and his perseverance. A lot of teams and fellow players do respect him for his resilience. He has matured and now he is considered as a character guy on the teqm.
It’s no 4/84 but he got some of it back at least lol
Just enough to keep the lights on and food on the table for his family.
Perspective is crazy. If all of someones rent/mortgage/monthly expenses are say, $4000 a month, times the rest of their adult life, so say, 40 years, that’s a mere $1.9M.
Athletes are overpaid, but so are owners and billionaires and anyone who can afford to retire but does not so they can hoard more money.
owners are overpaid? billionaires overpaid? they ARE the businesses, nobody is cutting them a check, theyre the ones signing the checks. dont like it? go be a billionaire.
lmao, thanks for letting me know to mute you. Bye.
The only ones you havent muted here are your burner accounts though lmao.
The beam keeps getting darker by the day.
Good for him.
Kings doing Kings.
Please tell what PG the kings can acquire or sign that is better?
They shouldn’t be aiming for another play-in push with this signing. Instead, they should focus on acquiring future assets by absorbing undesirable contracts—like Jrue Holiday, Pat Connaughton, or Duncan Robinson—alongside draft picks. The Kings remain stuck in NBA purgatory, and until they commit to a proper rebuild, they’ll never escape mediocrity.