{"id":450720,"date":"2025-07-10T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450720"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:59:11","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-lock-in-jalen-williams-with-max-extension-worth-up-to-287-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/oklahoma-city-thunder-lock-in-jalen-williams-with-max-extension-worth-up-to-287-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder lock in Jalen Williams with max extension worth up to $287 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45711264\/jalen-williams-thunder-agree-max-rookie-extension\">have secured<\/a> forward Jalen Williams with a five-year max extension that could reach approximately $287 million.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in the 2026\u201327 season, Williams will earn 25% of the salary cap\u2014projected to be just over $41 million annually\u2014for a base total of about $239.3 million over five years, according to CBA expert Yossi Gozlan. The full amount could increase significantly if Williams qualifies for escalators under the Derrick Rose Rule.<\/p>\n<p>This is OKC\u2019s third major extension in short order, following those of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (4 years, $285M) and Chet Holmgren (5 years, up to $250M).<\/p>\n<p>With these new deals in place, the Thunder are projected to have a roster cost exceeding $500 million (including luxury tax) in 2026\u201327.<\/p>\n<p>GM Sam Presti may eventually have to make tough decisions on the roster due to financial constraints, but he still possesses a deep war chest of future assets to navigate the challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Oklahoma City Thunder All-NBA star and champion Jalen Williams has agreed to a five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could reach $287 million, agents Bill Duffy and Justin Haynes of WME Basketball told ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3lwASY42iT\">pic.twitter.com\/3lwASY42iT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1943383916435640356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here are the projected salaries for Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams maximum contracts, worth 25 percent of the salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 escalators could reach 30 percent of the cap.<\/p>\n<p>Holmgren&#8217;s sounds like they&#8217;re capped 26 percent of the cap. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TQDUSYwpEV\">pic.twitter.com\/TQDUSYwpEV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yossi Gozlan (@YossiGozlan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YossiGozlan\/status\/1943384581400416764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 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>This is the third major extension in short order for the reigning NBA champions, following those of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (4 years, $285M) and Chet Holmgren (5 years, up to $250M).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":450721,"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-450720","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\/2025\/07\/jalen-williams-sga-thunder.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450720","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450720"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450720"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450720"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}