'Show Me The Money': Landale signs with Memphis

• Australian guard Josh Giddey is a restricted free agent in 2025
• 2025 NBA Draft Tracker: Every player selected
• Game time: Aussies In the 2025 NBA Summer League

Australian Jock Landale has signed with the Memphis Grizzlies, it is being reported.

Landale, 29, had two years remaining on his Rockets contract: 2025-26 worth $8M; and $8M team option in 2026-27 but was waived.

Australian Lachlan Olbrich has signed a two-way contract with the Chicago Bulls.

Olbrich, selected with the 55th pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, signed his first NBA contract on Friday, July 4, 2025.

The future of half of the Aussies in the NBA including "FIBA Patty" Mills and Ben Simmons are uncertain heading into the 2025-26 season.

One Australian, though, has locked in their 2025-26 bag: Matisse Thybulle opted into his $11.5M contract at the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

The 16 Australians in the NBA in 2024-25 earned a combined $149.1M USD — a cool $223.6M AUD.

Chicago Bulls and Australian Boomers Josh Giddey is a restricted free agent, which means the six-time NBA champions can choose to match any offer the 22-year-old is made by another franchise, meaning he would remain in the Windy City.

Giddey made $8.3M in 2024-25 while the last year of his contract is worth $11.1M he is projected to sign his next contract for about four times that whether it’s with the Bulls or another franchise when free agency starts on June 30, 2025.

Alex Ducas won Australia's 10th NBA Championship with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Aussies in the NBA Contract Status

• Kyrie Irving: Declines $42.9M player option, intends to sign 3-year $119M deal to stay with Mavericks
• Matisse Thybulle: Opts in to $11.5M extension on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
• Dyson Daniels: Two years remaining; 2025-26 worth $7.7M; and restricted free agent in 2026-27
• Joe Ingles: Signed a one-year, veteran minimum $3.6M with Minnesota Timberwolves
• Jock Landale: Signed with the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday, July 6, 2025. Terms TBA.
• Johnny Furphy: Three years remaining; 2025-26 worth $1.95M; 2026-27 worth $2.2M; and 2027-28 team option worth $2.4M
• Josh Green: Two years remaining; 2025-26 worth $13.6M; $14.6M in 2026-27
• Duop Reath: One year remaining worth $2.2M
• Josh Giddey: Restricted Free Agent (Chicago Bulls)
• Tyrese Proctor: The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed No.49 overall pick Tyrese Proctor to a four-year, $8.69 million deal. The first two seasons are fully guaranteed, third-year significant partial guarantee, and a fourth-year team option.
• Luke Travers: Restricted Free Agent (Two-way contract with Cleveland)
• Dante Exum: Signed a one-year $3.3M (USD) deal on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
• Taran Armstrong: Restricted Free Agent (two-way contract with Golden State)
• Lachlan Olbrich: Drafted by the Chicago Bulls. Signed a two-way contract on Friday, July 4, 2025
• Alex Ducas: Out of contract‍
• Ben Simmons: Out of contract‍
• Patty Mills: Out of contract
• Alex Toohey: Drafted by the Golden State Warriors
• Rocco Zikarsky: Drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves
• Jack McVeigh: Waived by the Houston Rockets‍

Ben Simmons

Simmons, who earned $40.3M this season in the last year of his max deal signed with the Philadelphia 76ers before his trade to the Brooklyn Nets and buyout that landed him on the Los Angeles Clippers, is now an unrestricted free agent, which means he can negotiate with any NBA team to get the best deal and fit. One thing is for certain, his next contract will be nowhere near the max deal — five years, $177M — he signed with the 76ers in 2020.

Patty Mills

Mills is 36. The Los Angeles Clippers are his fifth team in five years after winning an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2024. Mills earned $3M in 2024-25 but with the Clippers being eliminated (again) early in the play-offs who knows what owner Steve Ballmer has in mind for 2025-26 after spending a cool two billion on the Inuit Dome, $50M to Kawhi Leonard and James Harden due a player option $36.3M. Mills has earned more than $85M in a decade-long career and every NBA team is always on the hunt for a veteran point guard who can shoot the ball and Mills fits the bill. There’s been light speculation Mills could return to Australia and finish his career in the NBL but the reality is, that’s unlikely at least next season.

Dyson Daniels

Daniels, 22, is the NBA’s Most Improved Player and has two years remaining on his four-year $25M contract he signed with the New Orleans Pelicans before being traded to the Atlanta Hawks. He should have won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year but was snubbed in favour of Cleveland Cavaliers centre Evan Mobley. Daniels is due $7.7M in 2025-26 before becoming a restricted free agent and in the famous Rod Tidwell … “Show Me The Money”.

About the Author

Peter Brown is the head coach of the Sydney Comets Women’s Youth League team in the Waratah Basketball League in NSW. He is also the assistant coach for the Comets NBL1 women’s team in the NBL1 East Conference. Peter is a 30-year journalist, starting as a sports reporter at the NT News in the early 1990s. He played junior basketball for the Northern Territory at national championships from U16 to U20 and for the Territory’s senior men’s team at numerous international tournaments. Peter has been a basketball fan since the early 80s, especially the NBA. Basketball is his passion — and his opinions his own. Email peter.brown@basketball.com.au with feedback. Any email feedback on articles sent to Peter can be published on basketball.com.au for others to read.