Royce O'Neale Rumors
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Position: F
Born: 06/05/93
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:226 lbs. / 102.5 kg.
Salary: $1,618,520
Born: 06/05/93
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:226 lbs. / 102.5 kg.
Salary: $1,618,520
The insinuation was that players would not be able to be away from their sexual partners for such a long time. “Forget three months, they’re gonna struggle with three weeks,” Smith yelled. Do the Jazz think that players will break the rules of the bubble? “If they do, that’s them,” O’Neale said, dismissing the notion. “I’m single, I’m by myself, I ain’t got nothing to worry about. Quarantine life was kind of easy for me. I just played video games and hung out with my dog, so I think it’ll kind of be the same thing. Just without my dog. I’ll be alright.”
The third-year guard’s Instagram account featured a picture of him and teammate Royce O’Neale sitting down in a room playing video games — while properly social distancing, of course. The caption to the pic reads, “What we finna look like in Orlando.” Meanwhile, a photo on the IG page of Jazz sixth man Jordan Clarkson showed him on a basketball court with Mitchell, with the accompanying message, “it will be only one reasons [sic] we going to disney for…one goal, one reason……” followed by a championship trophy emoji.
The Jazz, utilizing Zoom, have been conducting weekly team meetings with head coach Quin Snyder, in addition to virtual group workouts, and team challenges. “We’ve had like fun little dribbling challenges that one of the coaches started per week and we crown a winner,” Conley said. “Just trying to keep guys engaged as much as possible in hopes that we can get back to playing soon.” Conley has also been trying to stay engaged with his teammates in more recreational ways, playing Call of Duty with Royce O’Neale and Donovan Mitchell and playing Monopoly with Ed Davis.
Royce O’Neale: Dang my 2k rating still at 73 🤦🏾♂️ that’s wild😂😂😂🤷🏾♂️ How I get that up lol @Ronnie 2K @NBA2K
The Miami Heat were at least able to pick up some sort of victory while the NBA is suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak. On Saturday, Heat forward Meyers Leonard led his team to a victory in a Call of Duty tournament for NBA players. The match was broadcast on Twitch, a live streaming platform for gamers. Leonard teamed with NBAers Donovan Mitchell, Zach LaVine, Mario Hezonja and high school player Bronny James, son of LeBron James. They defeated a team comprised of Josh Hart, Ben Simmons and Royce O’Neale and high school player Terrence Clarke.
Royce O’Neale: Yooo was that an earthquake?
Mitchell wasn’t the only teammate of Gobert’s frustrated in the immediate wake of his diagnosis, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported. But Gobert’s Instagram post has messages of support from many of his teammates, including Mike Conley, Emmanuel Mudiay and Royce O’Neale. Georges Niang is among others who wrote a tweet expressing well wishes to Mitchell and Gobert.
On Friday night, Mitchell was involved in a video game stream on Twitch with teammate and friend Royce O’Neale. At one point, O’Neale was asked about the status of Mitchell and Gobert’s relationship, to which O’Neale replied, “Ask Donovan.” Mitchell largely stayed silent throughout the stream, laughing here and there. But when a clip of the “Ask Donovan” line started circulating on social media, O’Neale and Mitchell laughed at the drama and downplayed the “beef” on the stream. Someone associated with O’Neale and Mitchell asked the fan who posted the clip to take it down, and the fan complied.
Royce O’Neale: Appreciate all the love and support. I’m good and okay. Everybody make sure you stay safe and take care of yourself 🙏🏾 We here for you guy @Donovan Mitchell and @Rudy Gobert healthy recovery for you guys 🤙🏾🤙🏾
Sarah Todd: Conley will be starting. “I’m not gonna go through how we make decisions” Quin Snyder on the confusion about Conley and Ingles. Added that the lineups have been fluid all year and this is a defensive decision for right now.
Andy Larsen: Quin Snyder, explaining the lineup change: “We’ve got to get back to defending. My decision to put Royce in the lineup is grounded in that, but he can’t do it on his own.”
The Jazz plan to move Royce O’Neale into the starting five in Conley’s place, those sources say. Utah has valued O’Neale as the team’s premier perimeter defender, and the move would allow Joe Ingles to take on more of a prominent role in the starting lineup.
Point guard Mike Conley will return to the Utah Jazz’s starting lineup Saturday night against the Portland Trail Blazers, league sources told ESPN. Conley will replace Royce O’Neale in the starting lineup, according to sources.
“It’s about everybody not caring who’s starting and who’s coming off the bench,” O’Neale recently told ESPN. “At first, it was Joe coming off the bench and he didn’t care. We’ve got guys who are unselfish, who really don’t care who’s scoring or whatever, who love playing with each other. As long as the team wins, everyone is happy.”
Royce O’Neale: RIP KOBE man 😔🙏🏾
There’s a reason they arrived at this figure. Speaking of which, here are the exact figures: The Athletic has learned the final year of this deal is only $2.5M guaranteed, out of $9.5M total. The payouts by year are $8.5M in 2020-21, $8.8M in 2021-22, $9.2M in 2022-23, and the partially guaranteed final year of $9.5M in 2023-24).
Eric Walden: Donovan Mitchell, on Royce O’Neale’s contract extension: “It’s great to see great things happen to great people. … We all know the worker he is, the time and effort he puts in. You guys have seen the effort, you guys have seen the results.” pic.twitter.com/C0INimr7qU
Andy Larsen: Royce O’Neale signing now official. Statement quotes below. We’re also about to talk to Dennis Lindsey/Justin Zanik/David Morway at ZBBC. pic.twitter.com/dU55N4tHfu
Royce O’Neale: Jazzzzzzz Nation @Utah Jazz Let’s get it 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 #Blessings pic.twitter.com/4ieoXYwqfR
Joe Ingles: Big money @Royce O’Neale!!! Dinner on youuuuuuuu!!! 💰💰💰 Congrats brother ❤️
Jazz extend Royce O'Neale
Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale has agreed to a four-year, $36 million contract extension, agents Ty Sullivan and Steven Heumann of CAA Sports told ESPN. O’Neale plans to sign the deal on Sunday, the agents said. Although he could’ve become a restricted free agent this summer, O’Neale and his reps negotiated a long-term deal that keeps him with the franchise that signed him out of Europe in 2017.
Tony Jones: The Utah Jazz and Royce O’Neale have agreed to a four year $36 million extension, league sources tell myself and @Shams Charania
Mike Conley Changes Agents
Tony Jones: Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley has switched agents and joined CAA…. he is now in the same agency as Utah Jazz teammates Donovan Mitchell and Royce O’Neale
But O’Neale has been a rock the past two years for the Jazz, and he’ll be one of the most important cogs in a wheel that hopes to still be rolling once next June comes around. At the very least, he’ll be in Quin Snyder’s top seven. There’s a chance he’s a starter, depending on what the Jazz decide to do with Ingles at the beginning of games. He’s for sure Utah’s best and most consistent perimeter defender. LeBron James. Kawhi Leonard. James Harden. Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum and Steph Curry. At some point, the Jazz will trust O’Neale to try to slow all of those guys down. “The thing we love about Royce is his capacity for work,” Jazz executive vice president Dennis Lindsey told The Athletic. “He loves the gym, and he loves the grind. And he has a body that doesn’t wear down.”
He’s worked tirelessly on his skills, attempting to develop from the 3-point line, which has given him the option as a floor spacer offensively. Those attributes are reasons he may find himself anointed a starter for the first time in his career. “He’s very strong, he has great feet and balance,” Jazz teammate Donovan Mitchell said. “He doesn’t reach and he’s composed. His physicality and mentality is great. He understands what’s expected of him. “His preparation and instincts separate him. He could be one of the best defenders in the league, he really has those tools.”
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Albert Nahmad: Due to the slightly higher than projected finalized 2019-20 salary cap ($109.14M), the Jazz could potentially take Mike Conley into cap room and still retain the non-guaranteed salaries of Derrick Favors, Royce O’Neal and Georgies Niang.
Royce O’Neale: Noooo KD 🙏🏾
Eric Woodyard: James Harden embraced Royce O’Neale with encouragement after the series. O’Neale wouldn’t share exactly what he said, but did say earning that respect was big for his career.
Eric Woodyard: Jazz swingman Royce O’Neale is looking to make things tough for James Harden on defense. “You can’t stop everything, but taking away a lot of stuff,” he said. pic.twitter.com/ndTWVuyzHK
Royce O’Neale: OMG Nurkić 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The game got a bit heated early when Utah’s Derrick Favors and Denver’s Mason Plumlee were both ejected with 2:46 left in the first quarter. The two shoved each either under the Nuggets basket, leading to more shoving from multiple players on both teams. Favors and Plumlee each received a technical foul, as did Utah’s Royce O’Neale and Denver’s Will Barton for pushing and shoving in the scrum. Favors finished with two rebounds and zero points in five minutes. Plumlee tallied two points, a rebound and a block in four minutes.
Royc O’Neale knows that his time came in 2017. After signing a deal in Lithuania with an NBA out before summer league, he’d impressed the Jazz enough with his July play to earn an NBA contract. He called his mother again. “The bad news is, you don’t get a chance to go visit Lithuania,” O’Neale teased. “The good news is, we made it. I’ve signed with the Jazz.”
O’Neale wants more in his second season. He’s spent a good chunk of his summer working with Jazz assistant Lamar Skeeter on his ball-handling, aiming to become more of a threat off the dribble. O’Neale also has worked on his shooting — the Jazz would like him to be a 40-percent 3-point shooter — and on becoming stronger. O’Neale showed signs of being able to initiate pick-and-roll toward the end of the season and Utah wants him to expand on that in the coming season. O’Neale also spent time in Houston this summer, working out with reigning NBA MVP James Harden and Chris Paul. O’Neale and strength coach Jasper Bibbs also did some workouts in Miami. In between all of that, O’Neale participated in the Junior Jazz tour, played in Harden’s charity softball game in Houston, and held a charity bowling event last week. It has been quite the summer.
Royce O’Neale: Yeahhhhh @Donovan Mitchell well deserved my guy ✊🏾
Eric Woodyard: Royce O’Neale on who the Utah Jazz should pick at No. 21: “I don’t really know who is in the draft really. I haven’t been paying attention like that. I’ve been out of college for a couple years (laughs) but it’s a lot of good players in the draft so it’ll be interesting to see.”
Royce O’Neale: KD, that’s a bad man 👏🏾
O’Neale’s production only increased during the playoffs, as he averaged 23.5 minutes over 11 games, and started the entire second round at shooting guard when Ricky Rubio got injured and Donovan Mitchell shifted to point guard. “Dream come true, really,” O’Neale said of his season at the Jazz’s exit interviews after Game 5. “Just fighting for that last roster spot, not knowing what to expect coming into the season, being on a team and just working hard each day, growing as a person on and off the court and just taking advantage of the opportunity that Coach gave me.”
He fully recognizes the need to continue to improve, though, and particularly wants to get better offensively after averaging exactly five points per game during the regular season and 7.1 during the postseason. “At the end of the day it’s a business,” he said. “Getting in (the NBA) will probably be the hardest part, but you gotta do what you have to do to stay in. You have to work hard each day, go the extra mile, because there’s always somebody that’s coming in, trying to take your spot, so just looking at that and just not being comfortable at all.”
