The Thunder have taken one other step ahead in locking up their younger championship core for the long run.
Oklahoma Metropolis has agreed to a five-year, totally assured contract extension with Chet Holmgren that might attain $250 million, in line with ESPN insider Shams Charania.
The 23-year-old performed a key function within the Thunder’s championship this season and can now signal the coveted rookie most extension.
Whereas Holmgren missed 50 video games through the common season with a pelvic harm, he returned for the playoffs and performed 23 video games within the Thunder’s run, averaging 15.2 factors, 8.7 rebounds and 1.9 blocks in 29.8 minutes per sport.
Holmgren’s well being was a difficulty in his first NBA season, too, as he missed everything of the 2022-23 season with a foot harm.
However he adopted that season up by enjoying all 82 video games in 2023-24, averaging 16.5 factors, 7.9 rebounds and a couple of.3 blocks on spectacular 53/37/79.3 capturing splits. He completed second in Rookie of the Yr voting solely behind Victor Wembanyama.
Holmgren’s extension comes only a week after his Oklahoma Metropolis teammate and NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander signed a $285 million extension with the workforce.
The subsequent transfer for the franchise is more likely to retain Jalen Williams on an identical rookie most extension as Holmgren in an effort to maintain the first core collectively transferring ahead.
Charania reported that Williams and the Thunder have “momentum” in coming to an settlement quickly.
The Thunder drafted Holmgren and Williams collectively in 2022, giving them the pliability to signal every of them to the rookie scale extension, which gamers drafted within the first spherical grow to be eligible for following their third season.
Holmgren was the second total choose within the draft, solely behind Magic star Paolo Banchero, who additionally simply signed his rookie max extension.
