{"id":436031,"date":"2025-04-01T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436031"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:32:44","slug":"kevin-punter-reportedly-signs-three-year-extension-with-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kevin-punter-reportedly-signs-three-year-extension-with-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Punter officially signs three-year extension with Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1497\"><strong data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1091\">Kevin Punter<\/strong> has signed a <strong data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1124\">three-year deal<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1143\">Barcelona<\/strong>, worth <strong data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1172\">\u20ac12 million gross<\/strong>, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1806171\/kevin-punter-signing-a-three-year-deal-with-barcelona\/\"><em data-start=\"1178\" data-end=\"1189\">Eurohoops<\/em><\/a>. Barca Basket announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1497\">The 32-year-old guard, enjoying a career-best season with <strong data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1261\">17.1 PPG<\/strong>, is shooting 41% from deep and 93.6% from the line. With injuries to Laprovittola and N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Punter has stepped up as both scorer and playmaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1497\">He is now locked in until <strong data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1441\">2028<\/strong>, likely finishing his EuroLeague career in Catalunya.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ca\">\u2705 El Club s\u2019assegura la continu\u00eftat de l\u2019escorta nord-americ\u00e0 per a les properes tres temporades<\/p>\n<p>Tots els detalls de la renovaci\u00f3, aqu\u00ed \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/32nuAOwDxF\">https:\/\/t.co\/32nuAOwDxF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bar\u00e7a Basket (@FCBbasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBbasket\/status\/1907055448915636422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Barca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.cat\/ca\/basquet\/primer-equip\/noticies\/4242144\/acord-per-a-la-renovacio-de-kevin-punter-fins-al-2028\">press<\/a> release<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Bar\u00e7a Basketball and Kevin Punter Reach Agreement on Contract Extension Until 2028<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FC Barcelona\u2019s basketball team and <strong>Kevin Punter<\/strong> have reached an agreement to <strong>extend the contract<\/strong> of the American shooting guard, who also holds a Serbian passport, <strong>until 2028<\/strong>. The Blaugrana number 0 joined Barcelona this past summer on a one-year deal, and following the agreement between both parties, <strong>he will now remain for three more seasons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In just a few months in Barcelona, Punter has become one of <strong>Joan Pe\u00f1arroya\u2019s key players<\/strong> and a <strong>fan favorite at the Palau Blaugrana<\/strong>, where his exceptional shooting and relentless effort are on full display every game.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Tremendous Offensive Potential<\/h3>\n<p>His numbers speak for themselves. In the <strong>EuroLeague<\/strong>, he is the team\u2019s <strong>top offensive performer<\/strong>, averaging:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>17.1 points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3.1 assists<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1.2 steals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>16.7 performance index rating (PIR)<\/strong> across 30 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From beyond the arc, he\u2019s shooting <strong>40.9%<\/strong>, with <strong>20 consecutive games<\/strong> hitting at least one three-pointer, and scoring from deep in <strong>28 of the last 29 contests<\/strong>. He is also <strong>third in the EuroLeague in steals per game<\/strong> and <strong>seventh in scoring<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Spanish Liga Endesa<\/strong>, he has played 23 games, averaging:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>12 points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>11.1 PIR<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three-point shooting at 46.8%<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In a full interview with <strong>Bar\u00e7a One<\/strong>, also available on <strong>Spotify<\/strong>, Kevin Punter reflects on his childhood in the <strong>Bronx<\/strong> and the long road that brought him to Barcelona \u2014 a place where he has felt <strong>deeply appreciated from day one<\/strong>, and where he will <strong>continue to represent the Blaugrana badge for the next three seasons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Punter is staying at FC Barcelona through 2028 with a new \u20ac12 million deal after a career-best season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":411414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/Kevin-Punter-Barcellona-e1730300630689.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436031"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436031"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436031"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}