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Oklahoma City Thunder prima and 2025 NBA champion Chet Holmgren has agreed to a afloat guaranteed five-year maximum rookie declaration hold that could scope $250 million, Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN connected Wednesday morning.
After missing 3 months during the play owed to a hep injury, Holmgren returned successful February and came backmost stronger to assistance pb the Thunder and its young halfway to the NBA title. Oklahoma City officials volition present determination toward locking successful All-NBA superstar Jalen Williams, who has momentum successful his rookie hold talks.
The second-youngest squad successful NBA past to triumph a championship, the Thunder person present locked successful Holmgren and league MVP and Finals MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to semipermanent maximum extensions. On Tuesday, Gilgeous-Alexander officially signed a four-year, $285 cardinal declaration hold done the 2030-31 season. Holmgren's woody -- guaranteed for $239 cardinal -- has escalators to instrumentality the hold up to $250 million.
Holmgren, 23, is portion of a tight-knit Thunder halfway acceptable to play with each different and contend for an NBA title for respective years to come.
Holmgren suffered the 2nd large wounded of his NBA vocation aft helium broke his pelvis successful aboriginal November. He besides missed the entirety of his rookie play owed to a ligament teardrop successful his close foot.
Holmgren returned from the pelvis wounded soon earlier the All-Star interruption successful February and finished the play averaging 15 points, 8 rebounds and 2.2 blocks portion shooting 49% from the tract and 37.9% from 3-point range. He went connected to play successful each 23 games during Oklahoma City's rubric run, and his plus-169 plus-minus was the champion people of immoderate subordinate successful the 2025 postseason, according to ESPN Research.
A lanky, 7-foot-1 halfway known for elite instincts and winning attributes, Holmgren is simply a cardinal portion of the Thunder's historically large defense. He contested 93% of opponent's changeable attempts arsenic the closest defender, the second-highest complaint successful the league since the commencement of past season, and led the NBA successful tract extremity percent allowed connected layups and dunks past play among players to contention 100-plus shots, according to GeniusIQ. He besides allowed the lowest tract extremity percent (33%) of anyone who defended astatine slightest 40 shots successful this year's NBA Finals, per ESPN Tracking.
Holmgren blocked 11 shots successful the Finals alone, including 5 successful Game 7 -- the astir by immoderate subordinate successful an NBA Finals Game 7 since blocks became authoritative successful 1974. He's 1 of conscionable 3 players all-time with 150 made 3-pointers and 250 blocks done the archetypal 2 NBA seasons, on with Victor Wembanyama and Kristaps Porzingis.
