The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder have signed ahead/middle Jaylin Williams to a multi-year contract extension, Government Vice President and Common Supervisor Sam Presti introduced Sunday.
Jaylin Williams’ New Deal Carries An Common Annual Wage Of $8 Million
In accordance with ESPN’s Shams Charania, Williams is signing a brand new three-year, $24 million contract extension with the Thunder after they declined his $2.1 million staff choice for the 2025-26 season.
Oklahoma Metropolis negotiated the brand new elevate with Williams’ brokers, Marcus Monk and Sean Kennedy of Excel Sports activities. His contract consists of $15.4 million assured and a mean annual wage of $8 million, per Spotrac.
Williams, who celebrated his twenty third birthday Sunday, is ready to earn an estimated $7.4 million subsequent season and $8 million in 2026-27. His deal additionally carries an $8.59 million staff choice for 2027-28.
In 165 profession NBA regular-season video games (46 begins) throughout three seasons with OKC, Williams has averaged 5.1 factors, 4.5 rebounds, 1.9 assists, and 15.7 minutes per contest whereas capturing 43% from the sphere, 39% from 3-point vary, and 75.2% on the foul line.
Willams Posted Profession-Excessive Numbers In 2024-25
The 6-foot-8 Williams was chosen thirty fourth general by the Thunder within the 2022 NBA draft out of Arkansas. He made 36 begins in 49 video games of his rookie 2022-23 marketing campaign after Chet Holmgren was dominated out for the complete season because of a Lisfranc harm in his foot.
In 47 video games (9 begins) of the 2024-25 season, Williams averaged 5.9 factors, profession highs of 5.6 rebounds and a couple of.6 assists, and 16.7 minutes per contest whereas capturing a career-best 43.9% from the ground and 39.9% from deep.
Per NBA.com, Williams recorded three triple-doubles throughout his 9 begins this previous season, and he turned simply the fifth Thunder participant in staff historical past to document a number of triple-doubles in a single season.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander May Signal Extension With Thunder
Newly topped MVP winner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, middle Isaiah Hartenstein, and wing Lu Dort are all eligible to change into unrestricted free brokers in 2027. Holmgren, in the meantime, can change into a restricted free agent in 2026.
Per Spotrac, Gilgeous-Alexander is within the third season of a five-year, $179.3 million rookie max extension. His present deal runs via the 2026-27 season and features a 30% escalator clause that turns the assured $172 million base into $207 million for incomes at the very least one of many three All-NBA Workforce alternatives.
In February, NBA insider Marc Stein reported that SGA would change into eligible for a four-year supermax extension this summer time that will “set him up for the primary $80 million wage in NBA historical past in 2030-31.”
In accordance with ESPN’s Bobby Marks, though SGA met the tremendous max standards final offseason, he was ineligible to signal as a result of he was in need of the years of service standards. He’s now eligible to signal a four-year $293 million extension.
The 2025 NBA free company interval begins June 30 at 6 p.m. ET.
