{"id":533593,"date":"2026-09-22T21:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=533593"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:31:52","slug":"kawhi-leonard-raptors-agree-to-two-year-115m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kawhi-leonard-raptors-agree-to-two-year-115m-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard, Raptors Agree to Two-Year, $115M Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Toronto Raptors and Kawhi Leonard have agreed to a two-year, $115 million contract extension, according to Shams Charania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two-time NBA champion will earn the $50.3 million guaranteed by his current deal in the upcoming season. The extension will run from 2027 through 2029 and includes a player option for the second season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonard will thus have the opportunity to spend the final part of his career in Toronto, where he will look to add another NBA championship to the historic title he won with the Raptors in 2019.<\/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\">Both sides maintained consistent dialogue on Leonard\u2019s long-term Raptors future since July after the reunion via trade \u2014 and the two-time Finals MVP expects to finish his career in Toronto. Leonard, 35, now has a total of three years and $165 million on his Raptors deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kIvWY6859y\">https:\/\/t.co\/kIvWY6859y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2102476667625324965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 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 extension will run from 2027 through 2029 and includes a player option for the second season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":515559,"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":true,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[4988,867],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-533593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-kawhi-leonard-en","tag-toronto-raptors-en","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/kawhi-leonard-raptors.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533593","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=533593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533594,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533593\/revisions\/533594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533593"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=533593"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=533593"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=533593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}