{"id":323058,"date":"2025-10-05T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/323058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:07:11","slug":"trail-blazers-shaedon-sharpe-gets-90-million-contract-update-before-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/323058\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers&#8217; Shaedon Sharpe gets $90 million contract update before new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/portland-trail-blazers\/news\/trail-blazers-shaedon-sharpe-90-million-contract-update\/b5592611bf493aa65d75b225?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trail Blazers&#039; Shaedon Sharpe gets $90 million contract update before new season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trail Blazers&#8217; Shaedon Sharpe gets $90 million contract update before new season<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Portland Trail Blazers continue to make moves to try to instill the culture they want.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s clear they want Shaedon Sharpe to be a part of that.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JakeLFischer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBA insider Jake Fischer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBA insider Jake Fischer<\/a>, the Trail Blazers have made a contract extension offer to Sharpe.<\/p>\n<p>Their offer, per the report, came in at about four years and $90 million.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-seth-curry-jersey-number-brother-steph-money\/9e63d98c61abc2c1fc091925\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seth Curry tried to take something that belonged to Steph;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seth Curry tried to take something that belonged to Steph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sharpe is one of the most exciting players in recent Portland times. He&#8217;s a high-flying 6-foot-6 guard.<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers initially got him as the No. 7 overall pick out of Kentucky in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe, who is Canadian, has gotten better each season in the league.<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie, he averaged 9.9 points per game. He raised that to 15.9 points per game in his second season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In 2024-25, Sharpe put up 18.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 0.9 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>He is only a 33% 3-point shooter in his career. That&#8217;s the skill that could potentially elevate him to superstardom if he ever improves beyond the line.<\/p>\n<p>Even without that, though, Sharpe is clearly a long-term, high-end starter in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>And the Trail Blazers want to do what they can to make sure he&#8217;s doing that contributing in Portland and not somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers&#8217; Shaedon Sharpe gets $90 million contract update before new season originally appeared on The Sporting News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,3553,6,687,471,3967,10133,4426,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-323058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-jake-fischer","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-seth-curry","16":"tag-shaedon-sharpe","17":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115322188298364910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323058","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=323058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}