{"id":781176,"date":"2026-07-08T08:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/781176\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:09:15","slug":"contract-details-hartenstein-ellis-young-achiuwa-thj-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/781176\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract Details: Hartenstein, Ellis, Young, Achiuwa, THJ, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected, Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a>\u2018s three-year, 75MM contract<\/a> with the Thunder and Keon Ellis<\/a>\u2018 two-year, $18MM deal<\/a> with the Nets feature\u00a0both player and team options on their respective final seasons, Hoops Rumors has confirmed.<\/p>\n

It has been 25 years since a mutual option (ie. both a player and team option) has been included in an NBA contract, per ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks, but they\u2019re apparently back in vogue in 2026.<\/p>\n

Either the player or the team can decide to exercise their option and lock in the final year of the contract. The option year would only be nixed if both the player and team decline to pick it up, which seems unlikely to happen \u2014 if it\u2019s a favorable deal for one side, it\u2019s likely less favorable for the other.<\/p>\n

Moritz Wagner<\/a>\u2018s agreement with Brooklyn isn\u2019t yet official, but it\u2019s expected to feature a similar second-year mutual option.<\/p>\n

Here are more details on some of the recently signed contracts from around the league:<\/p>\n

Trae Young<\/a>\u2018s four-year contract<\/a> with the Wizards is worth his maximum (roughly $49.49MM) in year one, with a 2% raise in year two and then maximum (8%) raises for years three and four. The total value of the deal is $212.8MM.
\nThe Kings used their full bi-annual exception to sign<\/a> Precious Achiuwa<\/a>, so his two-year total is $11.23MM, a little less than the $11.5MM initially reported. Both years of the contract are guaranteed.
\nTim Hardaway Jr.<\/a>\u2018s one-year contract<\/a> with the Heat, reported to be worth $6.5MM, actually comes in at $6.065MM, giving Miami a little more room to maneuver below its hard cap at the first apron.
\nKenrich Williams<\/a> one-year, $5MM contract<\/a> with the Thunder features an additional $500K in unlikely incentives, which suggests Oklahoma City isn\u2019t especially worried about the second apron. Unlikely incentives don\u2019t count against a player\u2019s cap hit unless the player meets the necessary criteria to earn the bonus, but they do count against a team\u2019s apron salary.
\nThe two-way contracts that undrafted rookies Michael Ajayi<\/a> and Kylan Boswell<\/a> signed<\/a> with<\/a> the Hornets will both cover two years.
\nBruce Thornton<\/a>\u2018s four-year contract<\/a> with the Rockets doesn\u2019t feature any guaranteed money beyond the first season. The second and third years are non-guaranteed, while the fourth year is a team option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, Isaiah Hartenstein\u2018s three-year, 75MM contract with the Thunder and Keon Ellis\u2018 two-year, $18MM deal with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,2417,949,5760,3211,8785,83552,10745,911,494],"class_list":["post-781176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-bruce-thornton","tag-isaiah-hartenstein","tag-kenrich-williams","tag-keon-ellis","tag-kylan-boswell","tag-michael-ajayi","tag-precious-achiuwa","tag-tim-hardaway-jr","tag-trae-young"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116883342188429152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781176","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=781176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}