[Charania] BREAKING: NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has agreed to a four-year, $285 million super maximum contract extension with the championship Oklahoma City Thunder through 2030-31, sources tell ESPN. This is now the richest annual salary for a player in league history.

25 comments

1. Worth every penny

2. Not now guys we’re waiting on the Deandre Ayton Decision

3. thats a lot of mahney

4. Thats it? I thought he was eyeing a 350m deal

5. Wow! On Sam Presti Day too!

   Also, this was kind of unexpected. I thought he was going to wait until next summer since he was eligible for 5 yr/380m. This is great news!

6. Imagine being a superstar player from the 70’s & 80’s seeing these numbers lol.

7. 9 years ago 150 M was thought to be expensive

   Crazy how much has changed

8. MVP man gets paid

9. Welcome to CJ McCollum’s NBA. Where everyone is either on a max contract or an exception contract with nothing in-between.

10. How does this affect his chances of becoming a raptor?

11. Shai calls Sam Presti

    Sam Presi picks up phone and goes immediatly “enjoy the supermax”

    End of call

12. Great googily moogily

13. Oh, so that’s why OKC has 40000 second round picks

14. The super duper max

15. Damn thats more than my dad made in his lifetime

16. First contract that exceeds the $70 million/year threshold in the NBA

17. holy fucking shit – $70 million

18. $71.25M AAV 😳

19. Good on our ownership for not fucking around with us and getting it done

20. That’s Ohtani (non-deferred) Money!

21. Damn, I can’t believe I picked getting a math degree over being a NBA player 

22. This is funny cause it is kind of a pay cut as he could’ve made 5 years 384 next year I believe.

    Kinda what Brunson did but on a much, much more massive scale

23. $GA

24. That Victor Wembanyama max contract extension bomb from Shams is going to hit like crack in a few years.

25. He earned it, but knowing someone makes $70/year to play a game of basketball will never make me feel bad about pirate streaming NBA game.