Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: $285M OKC Contract to 2031

(very) big sub -sous – After having won everything in the NBA with the Thunder in 2024-2025, the 26 -year -old Canadian rear has just switched to the checkout, to pocket a wages at heights never seen thanks to his juicy contract extension until 2031

Negotiating your contract extension a few days after allowing their team to win the first NBA coronation in its history is not fundamentally a bad strategic choice. Especially when in this same season, you have managed to be the best scorer, the MVP of the regular season, that of the Western Conference final and finally that of the major NBA finals won at the end of the suspense against the Indiana Pacers (4-3).

At 26 years old, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had the dreamed profile to obtain a solid gold contract in the largest basketball league in the world, and he was not asked to benefit from it, by extending his lease at Oklahoma City of an additional four years, as announced this Tuesday ESPN. The Canadian rear will thus benefit over the period from 2027 to 2031 from a record salary in NBA, estimated at $ 285 million.

Close to $ 79 million in 2030-2031

Transferred to the Thunder in 2019 thanks to a brilliant exchange for Paul George (and in particular Wagons from first rounds of Draft) mounted by OKC Sam Presti’s general manager, the former Los Angeles CLIPPERS playmaker was still under contract with the new NBA champion until 2027, with a salary of $ 79.1 million over two years. There, “SGA” will have even more status of superstar NBA since his new contract will guarantee him a salary that will climb season after season, until we approach the $ 79 million in the year 2030-2031.

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