The highest participant on the highest workforce within the Western Convention plans to make a long-term dedication to the franchise.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander instructed Cleveland.com’s Jimmy Watkins that he doesn’t need to play anyplace else. He’s not all in favour of going to an even bigger market, as most of the league’s stars have completed lately.
“I can solely converse for myself. I really like Oklahoma Metropolis and I can’t see a world the place I’m not in Oklahoma Metropolis,” he mentioned, as relayed by The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd. “I’m comfy the place I’m. I like the place I’m. I really like the folks within the group, love the folks round me, and people are the issues that matter. I’m going to work day-after-day with a smile on my face. Me personally, the market doesn’t matter. The cash doesn’t matter to a sure extent. However so long as I take pleasure in what I’m doing at a really excessive stage, I really like the those that I’m round doing it.”
SGA signed a max rookie scale extension in 2021. He’s at present within the center season of that five-year , $179.3M contract.
SGA is already eligible to signal a chosen veteran/super-max extension (at 35% of the workforce’s wage cap) this summer time as a result of he made All-NBA groups in 2023 and 2024. Nevertheless, he was ineligible to ink a brilliant max extension final summer time as a result of seven seasons of NBA service is required. That is his seventh season.
It’s a lock that the franchise will provide him that tremendous max, which initiatives to be price as much as $314M over 5 years.
His statistics this season are carefully aligned with final season’s numbers, when he made the All-NBA First Staff. He’s averaging 31.3 factors, 6.1 assists, 5.6 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.2 blocks for the Thunder, who’re 30-6 regardless of dropping their showdown with Jap Convention-leader Cleveland on Wednesday.
