The Raptors and newly acquired ahead Brandon Ingram have reached an settlement on a three-year contract extension, in line with Shams Charania and Bobby Marks of ESPN (Twitter hyperlink), who hear from Ingram’s brokers at Klutch Sports activities that the deal shall be value $120M and can function a participant choice for the 2027-28 season.
Ingram was traded from the Pelicans to the Raptors final week in a deal that despatched Bruce Brown, Kelly Olynyk and two draft picks (one first-rounder and one second-rounder) to New Orleans.
Ingram had spent the earlier five-and-a-half seasons with the Pelicans after having been a centerpiece of the group’s return in 2019’s Anthony Davis blockbuster with the Lakers. From 2019-25, Ingram averaged 23.0 factors, 5.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists per recreation in 305 complete outings for New Orleans, with a .472/.372/.847 taking pictures line and a 2020 All-Star berth.
The Pelicans and Ingram have been unable to come back to phrases final offseason — or in the course of the first half of this season — on a brand new contract that may lengthen the 27-year-old’s $36M expiring deal, which led to the choice to commerce him.
The Raptors have been clearly extra snug with the thought of investing in Ingram — common supervisor Bobby Webster stated after final week’s commerce that the entrance workplace wouldn’t have made the commerce if there wasn’t “a consolation degree with (the contract) he was on the lookout for.”
Lately traded gamers face sure limitations on the extensions they’re permitted to signal, however Ingram’s new contract will fall inside these limits (which embody a 20% first-year elevate, subsequent annual raises of 5%, and 4 complete years, together with the present season).
The deal will even are available effectively under Ingram’s most. Based mostly on present cap projections, he would’ve been eligible to obtain as much as about $150M over the following three years if he had waited till free company to signal a brand new contract with the Raptors. His most three-year extension proper now would’ve been value $136.1M.
The precise influence of Ingram’s extension on Toronto’s cap state of affairs for 2025-26 and past received’t be identified till we see the official numbers, however it figures to push the group up over $175M in assured cash for 10 gamers for subsequent season. That shall be effectively over the projected cap ($154.6M), however will put the group in place to remain under the projected tax line ($187.9M).
Ingram, who continues to be recovering from an ankle harm and whose Raptors debut is probably going nonetheless somewhat methods off, is now a part of a core in Toronto that additionally contains Scottie Barnes, Immanuel Quickley, Gradey Dick and RJ Barrett.
