{"id":516728,"date":"2026-09-19T08:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=516728"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:21:38","slug":"ausar-thompson-agrees-to-155-million-extension-with-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ausar-thompson-agrees-to-155-million-extension-with-pistons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ausar Thompson agrees to $155 million extension with Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ausar Thompson and the Detroit Pistons have reached an agreement on a five-year, $155 million contract extension. ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania was first to report the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last season, Thompson averaged 9.9 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 2.0 steals and 0.9 blocks in 73 games, leading the NBA in steals per game. His defensive impact earned him a spot on the All-Defensive First Team and third place in the Defensive Player of the Year voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just in: Detroit Pistons All-Defensive forward Ausar Thompson has reached agreement on a five-year, $155 million rookie-scale contract extension, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DZEgX4GpLS\">pic.twitter.com\/DZEgX4GpLS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2101076358038433954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit forward has reached an agreement on a five-year rookie-scale extension, with the deal fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":372595,"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":[92],"tags":[1747],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[16775],"class_list":["post-516728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-detroit-pistons","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors","posizionamento-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Detroit-Pistons.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516728","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522442,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516728\/revisions\/522442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516728"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=516728"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=516728"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=516728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}