{"id":448796,"date":"2025-06-29T23:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448796"},"modified":"2025-06-29T23:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:43:50","slug":"ajay-mitchell-okc-thunder-agree-to-three-year-9m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ajay-mitchell-okc-thunder-agree-to-three-year-9m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Mitchell, OKC Thunder agree to three-year, $9M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1139\" data-end=\"1283\"><strong data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1171\">Ajay Mitchell<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"1180\" data-end=\"1205\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> have agreed to a <strong data-start=\"1223\" data-end=\"1258\">three-year, $9 million contract<\/strong>, per <em data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1280\">Shams Charania<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1285\" data-end=\"1472\">Mitchell, the <strong data-start=\"1299\" data-end=\"1330\">38th pick in the 2024 Draft<\/strong>, moved from a <strong data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1395\">Two-Way to a standard NBA contract in February<\/strong>, finishing with <strong data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1469\">6.5 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 1.8 assists in 36 games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1474\" data-end=\"1585\">OKC declined his 2025-26 team option to secure him long-term, showing trust in the young guard\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Oklahoma City Thunder intend to sign guard Ajay Mitchell to a new three-year contract worth nearly $9 million after declining his 2025-26 team option, sources tell ESPN. OKC and Life Sports Agency CEO Todd Ramasar and agent Mike Simonetta negotiated the new deal for Mitchell. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qNRha3RvIO\">pic.twitter.com\/qNRha3RvIO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1939425699103719770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunder lock in Mitchell after a solid rookie year averaging 6.5 PPG, moving from Two-Way to a standard deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371897,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Oklahoma-City-Thunder.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448796","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=448796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448796"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448796"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448796"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}