{"id":450180,"date":"2025-07-08T08:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450180"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:06:48","slug":"paolo-banchero-orlando-magic-agree-to-five-year-239m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/paolo-banchero-orlando-magic-agree-to-five-year-239m-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Banchero, Orlando Magic agree to five-year, $239M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1666\"><strong data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1456\">Paolo Banchero<\/strong> has signed a five-year, $239 million rookie max extension with the <strong data-start=\"1524\" data-end=\"1541\">Orlando Magic<\/strong>, which could reach $287 million if he earns All-NBA or MVP honors. The deal includes a player option for the 2030-31 season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1869\">After averaging 25.9 points and 7.5 rebounds, Banchero became only the third Magic player to average over 25 points, joining McGrady and O&#8217;Neal. Post All-Star, he raised his game to 29 points per game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"2048\">Magic president Jeff Weltman praised Banchero&#8217;s talent and commitment to the franchise and the city of Orlando, as the team aims to become a contender in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Orlando Magic star Paolo Banchero has agreed to a five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could reach $287 million, Mike Miller of LIFT Sports Management tells ESPN. Deal includes a player option; the first for a rookie max since 2021 (Luka Doncic, Trae Young). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bwnCrJbnmu\">pic.twitter.com\/bwnCrJbnmu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1942348247248634320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 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>Paolo Banchero signs a five-year rookie max extension worth $239M with the Orlando Magic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393278,"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-450180","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\/06\/Orlando-Magic.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450180","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=450180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450180"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450180"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450180"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}