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The Serbian center seals an extension until 2028 of the bond that joins him to the Denver Nuggets for which he will pocket 270 million dollars
The Denver Nuggets will cover Nikola Jokic in gold. The Serbian center, NBA MVP in the last two seasons, has signed an extension until 2028 of the bond that linked him to the Colorado franchise for which he will pocket a total of 270 million dollars, the highest contract in history of the best basketball competition on the planet. An astronomical agreement that comes to endorse, once again, the status of superstar that the Balkan has assumed, without a doubt one of the most decisive players in the North American league.
Jokic, who had one year left on his contract for which he had to receive 33 million dollars, will continue to be the Nuggets’ standard bearer for more than five years, after signing for the maximum that the franchise that recruited him in the position could offer him. number 41 of the 2014 draft and with which he comes from averaging 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game during the last campaign.
Some figures that allowed him to establish himself as MVP again, after beating the Greek Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Cameroonian Joel Embiid in the votes, but that were not enough for the Nuggets, weighed down by the injuries of Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr., to arrive high in the ‘playoffs’, where they were eliminated in the first round of the Western Conference by the eventual champions Golden State Warriors.
Despite this, no one doubted that the Nuggets would do the rest to renew Jokic with a cascade of millions that will allow him to break the record that Giannis Antetokounmpo had set when he signed a five-year contract with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2020 that will cost him 228 .2 million euros to the Greek.
At 27 years old, Jokic, a four-time All-Star, is the main beam of a project whose objective is to achieve that ring that the Colorado franchise has never been able to tie. For this, the Nuggets have already begun to move in the market and, in addition to making the Balkan center the highest paid player of all time, they have secured the services of Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Ish Smith, two good complements that arrive from the Washington Wizards in exchange for Monte Morris and Will Barton.
Although a good part of the options of the team that Mike Malone trains will go through the physical state in which forward Michael Porter Jr. and, above all, point guard Jamal Murray, two stars who have not been given respite by injuries in recent years, will return. recent times but, at their usual level, they can trigger the actions of the Nuggets.
Morant, Towns, Beal and Booker also make money
Nikola Jokic’s multi-million dollar contract extension wasn’t the only juicy move he left on the first night after the opening of NBA free agency. Ja Morant, one of the biggest sensations of the course who expired with the seventh ring of the Warriors, signed a five-year extension with the Memphis Grizzlies that will assure the South Carolina-born point guard a minimum of 193 million dollars, which will be they could rise to 231 if the next course is included in one of the All NBA quintets.
The center of Dominican origin Karl-Anthony Towns, for his part, will pocket 214 million in four years after renewing with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Phoenix Suns also sealed the renewal of shooting guard Devin Booker in exchange for 224 million dollars for four years, while the Washington Wizards tied Bradley Beal for the next five seasons, who will receive an amount of 251 million dollars.
The Jazz release Juancho Hernangomez
Bad news for Juancho Hernangómez. The Utah Jazz have cut the Spanish forward, who will have to find a new destination by not entering the plans of the Salt Lake City franchise. The man from Madrid, who joined the Jazz last February, after a few hectic months in which he spent lackluster for the Boston Celtics and the San Antonio Spurs after leaving some Minnesota Timberwolves that prevented him from participating in the Tokyo Olympics, had a secondary role in Quin Snyder’s rotation, despite the fact that he finished the season well, and did not seem to fit into the roadmap of Will Hardy, who relieved the coach who led the reconstruction of the franchise a few days ago.
Juancho Hernangómez, who if he had continued in the Jazz would have received 7.3 million dollars, becomes a free agent and is looking for a team in which to start a new stage in the NBA, a competition in which he landed in 2016 with the help of the Denver Nuggets, who chose him in 15th place in the draft and where he enjoyed his best seasons before they sent him to the Minnesota Timberwolves in February 2020. If he did not get it, he would return to Europe, where he has sounded for teams like Real Madrid or Barça.
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