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Oklahoma City Thunder star Chet Holmgren has agreed to a fully guaranteed five-year maximum rookie contract extension with the franchise, and could be paid upwards of $250 million.<\/p>\n

Thursday, July 10th 2025, 3:23 pm<\/p>\n

By: <\/p>\n

Christian Hans<\/p>\n

OKLAHOMA CITY – <\/p>\n

Chet Holmgren has agreed to a fully guaranteed five-year maximum rookie contract extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder, according to reports.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania, the Thunder star and NBA champion’s new contract could reach upwards of $250 million.<\/p>\n

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Holmgren, drafted by the Thunder in 2022, missed the entirety of his rookie season due to a foot injury.<\/p>\n

In the 2024-25 season, Holgren suffered another injury, this time due to an iliac wing fracture in his hip after falling during the team’s Nov. 10 matchup against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n

After returning the the team’s starting lineup, Holmgren helped lead the team to its first NBA title, defeating the Indiana Pacers and setting a record for most blocks (5) in an NBA Finals Game 7.<\/p>\n

Thunder offseason moves\/news in Summer 2025:June 24\u00a0–\u00a0Thunder celebrates NBA Championship with parade<\/a>June 28\u00a0–\u00a0Thunder trades forward Dillon Jones and a second-round pick to the Wizards for Colby Jones, who was released.<\/a>June 29\u00a0–\u00a0Re-signs forward Jaylin Williams to a veteran extension<\/a>July 1 –\u00a0Signs MVP guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to a four-year, $285 million supermax contract extension through the 2030-31 season.<\/a>July 3 –\u00a0Signed rookie guard Brooks Barnhizer to a two-way contract, Signed center Thomas Sorber to a rookie scale contract<\/a>July 6 –\u00a0Re-signed guard Ajay Mitchell to a contract extension<\/a>July 8 –\u00a0Re-signed forward Branden Carlson to a new two-way NBA contractJuly 9 –\u00a0Signs forward\/center Chet Holmgren to fully guaranteed five-year rookie maximum contract extension worth upwards of $250 million<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Thunder’s SGA is revealed as the cover athlete for NBA2K26<\/a>July 10\u00a0– Signs forward Jalen Williams to five-year maximum rookie contract extension<\/a><\/p>\n


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Christian Hans<\/p>\n

Christian Hans is a Digital Content Producer for News 9. He joined News 9 full-time in July of 2022 after graduating from the University of Oklahoma.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder star Chet Holmgren has agreed to a fully guaranteed five-year maximum rookie contract extension with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[5577,7,5579,366,10684,1256,130,164,126,6563,6,3220,310,475,179,3966,3965,5994,209,567,954,312,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-169878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-ajay-mitchell","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-branden-carlson","11":"tag-chet-holmgren","12":"tag-colby-jones","13":"tag-dillon-jones","14":"tag-espn","15":"tag-golden-state-warriors","16":"tag-indiana-pacers","17":"tag-jaylin-williams","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-championship","20":"tag-oklahoma","21":"tag-oklahoma-city","22":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","23":"tag-oklahomacity","24":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","25":"tag-sga","26":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","27":"tag-shams-charania","28":"tag-thomas-sorber","29":"tag-thunder","30":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114851257093002226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}