Jazz To Sign Bez Mbeng For Remainder Of Season
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The Utah Jazz plan to keep rookie guard Bez Mbeng through the end of the 2025-26 campaign after his second 10-day contract expired Wednesday night, according to Sarah Todd of The Deseret News.
Mbeng, 22, appeared in 11 games since joining Utah on March 13. Filling regular rotation minutes for an injury-depleted roster, the 6-foot-4 guard averaged 5.0 points, 3.4 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.7 steals across 29.9 minutes per contest. He shot 42.9 percent from the field, 16.7 percent from three-point range and 66.7 percent at the foul line.
The Jazz were impressed with Mbeng’s defensive impact. A three-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year at Yale (2023-25), he went undrafted last June and spent most of his first professional season with the Sioux Falls Skyforce, the Miami Heat’s G League affiliate, before landing in Utah.
Contract details were not disclosed, but if the agreement is a rest-of-season deal, Mbeng would earn about $80,469, bringing his NBA earnings to roughly $226,775 after two 10-day contracts worth $73,153 each.
With Mbeng’s new pact, Utah will have 14 players on standard contracts. Guard Kennedy Chandler currently occupies the 15th roster spot on a 10-day agreement.
Source: Hoops Rumors
