Oklahoma City Thunder guard\/forward and NBA champion Jalen Williams has agreed to a five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could potentially reach $287 million, ESPN confirms through WME Basketball agents Bill Duffy and Justin Haynes.<\/p>\n
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Jalen Williams hit a playoff high of 40 points during Game 5 of the Thunder v. Pacers Finals series, and has contributed to the meteoric rise of the OKC franchise on a national and worldwide scale.<\/p>\n
Williams averaged almost 24 points per game throughout the 7-game finals series, despite a wrist injury that required surgery over the summer. <\/p>\n
With Thunder contracts being solidified with overall MVP Shai-Gilgeous Alexander and most recently Chet Holmgren, the crew mostly looks to stick together for years to come at the heels of a historic NBA Championship season and win.<\/p>\n
Thunder offseason moves\/news in Summer 2025:June 24 – Thunder celebrates NBA Championship with parade<\/a>June 28 – Thunder trades forward Dillon Jones and a second-round pick to the Wizards for Colby Jones, who was released. <\/a>June 29 – Re-signs forward Jaylin Williams to a veteran extension<\/a>July 1 – Signs MVP guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to a four-year, $285 million supermax contract extension through the 2030-31 season.<\/a>July 3 – Signed rookie guard Brooks Barnhizer to a two-way contract, Signed center Thomas Sorber to a rookie scale contract<\/a>July 6 – Re-signed guard Ajay Mitchell to a contract extension<\/a>July 8 – Re-signed forward Branden Carlson to a new two-way NBA contractJuly 9 – Signs forward\/center Chet Holmgren to fully guaranteed five-year rookie maximum contract extension worth upwards of $250 million<\/a> | Thunder’s SGA is revealed as the cover athlete for NBA2K26<\/a>July 10 – Signs forward Jalen Williams to five-year maximum rookie contract extension<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder guard\/forward and NBA champion Jalen Williams has agreed to a five-year maximum rookie contract extension…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[5577,7,26737,5579,8496,366,10684,1256,130,364,6563,31520,6,3220,378,310,475,179,3966,3965,5994,209,954,312,683,31521],"class_list":{"0":"post-169997","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-bill-duffy","11":"tag-branden-carlson","12":"tag-brooks-barnhizer","13":"tag-chet-holmgren","14":"tag-colby-jones","15":"tag-dillon-jones","16":"tag-espn","17":"tag-jalen-williams","18":"tag-jaylin-williams","19":"tag-justin-haynes","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nba-championship","22":"tag-okc","23":"tag-oklahoma","24":"tag-oklahoma-city","25":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","26":"tag-oklahomacity","27":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","28":"tag-sga","29":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","30":"tag-thomas-sorber","31":"tag-thunder","32":"tag-wizards","33":"tag-wme-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114851579752262947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169997","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=169997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}