Dennis Schröder agrees to 3-year, $45 million deal with Sacramento Kings
The 31-year-old free agent guard agreed to a three-year, $45 million deal with the Sacramento Kings, ESPN's Shams Charania reported Tuesday.
In other words, Schröder will join his 10th team for his 13th NBA season.
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Schröder was drafted No. 17 overall by the Atlanta Hawks in 2013 and spent five seasons with the organization. Since then, however, the German native has joined nine different franchises, now including the Kings.
This past season, he scattered 75 regular-season games played across three teams and was even traded twice in less than 24 hours.
Schröder began the 2024-25 season with the Brooklyn Nets, for whom he started 23 games and averaged 18.4 points and 6.6 assists. In December, the Golden State Warriors traded for him, but Schröder's scoring and assist averages dropped to 10.6 and 4.4, respectively, in 24 games and 18 starts with the Warriors.
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Then, on Feb. 5, Golden State shipped Schröder off, as part of the five-team, blockbuster Jimmy Butler trade. Schröder was briefly rerouted to the Utah Jazz, who then traded him to Detroit on Feb. 6.
That same week, in the wake of the jaw-dropping Luka Dončić trade, Schröder vocalized his frustrations with the NBA trade deadline in an interview with NBC Sports Bay Area, even comparing the trades to "modern slavery."
"It's like modern slavery," Schröder said. "It's modern slavery at the end of the day. Everybody can decide where you're going, even if you have a contract. Yeah, of course, we make a lot of money and we can feed our families, but at the end of the day if they say, 'You're not coming to work tomorrow, you're going over there,' they can decide that."
Despite his February whirlwind, Schröder found success in Detroit, where he joined the upstart Pistons. As a veteran backcourt piece, Schröder made only eight starts in his 28 games with the Pistons. Still, his impact was still felt with 10.8 points and 5.3 assists per contest.
As was the case in Golden State, Schröder's field goal percentage hovered below 40% in Detroit — and his 3-point percentage sat below 33% — but he helped the Pistons earn the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Detroit previously hadn't made the postseason since 2019.
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Schröder has played games for the Atlanta Hawks (2013-18), Oklahoma City Thunder (2018-20), Los Angeles Lakers (2020-21 and 2022-23), Boston Celtics (2021-22), Houston Rockets (2022), Toronto Raptors (2023-24), Brooklyn Nets (2024), Golden State Warriors (2024-25) and Detroit Pistons (2025).
He'll now join a Sacramento Kings team that was in need of help at the point guard position. Prior to Tuesday's news, the Kings' only point guard was 23-year-old Devin Carter, who averaged just 11 minutes in 36 games as a rookie this past season.
Sacramento finished 40-42 in 2024-25 and missed the playoffs.
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