Shai Gilgeous-Alexander accepts the extension of the 4-year supermax contract, $ 285 million with Thunder: Relationship
The MVP NBA in charge remains in OKC in the long term. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has signed a four-year-old supermax extension of $ 285 million with the Oklahoma City Thunder, according to Espn’s Shams Charania.
The agreement maintains Gilgeous-Alexander with thunder during the NBA 2030-31 season. With the agreement, Gilgeous-Alexander will have the richest annual salary in the history of the NBA.
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The contract will resume in the 2027-2028 season, after the end of the current Gilgeous-Alexander agreement. In the next six seasons, Gilgeous-Alexander will gain $ 364 million. Gilgeous-Alexander will earn $ 38 million next season and $ 40 million in 2026-27 before the start of extension.
From there, Gilgeous-Alexander will see its annual salary jump up to $ 63 million and will constantly increase up to $ 78 million during the NBA 2030-31 season, according to Espn Bobby Marks.
At $ 71.25 million per year, the Gilgeous-Alexander agreement is the highest annual average in the history of the League. It becomes only the 15th player in the history of the League to sign a Supermax agreement, a designation that was introduced in the championship as part of the 2017 collective bargaining agreement.
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The most recent player to sign a supermax agreement was Jayson Tatum, whose extension with the Boston Celtics was the highest every year, until Gilgeous-Alexander has dissented it. The total value of the Tatum contract, a five -year agreement of $ 304 million, remains the largest overall league agreement.
As All-Star NBA in the last three consecutive seasons, Gilgeous-Alexander has already reached a criterion for Supermax and its 2025 MVP award made it suitable for a three-year supermax agreement. However, the guard was not able to sign a supermax extension with Oklahoma City until he completed his seventh year in the championship.
And what seventh year was: Gilgeous-Alexander was the backbone of the Thunder championship race, with an average of 32.7 points, 5 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 1.7 stolen per game throughout the 2024-2025 season. Gilgeous-Alexander was awarded with MVP and MVP finals, becoming the first player in more than a decade to earn both honors.
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Now that it is considered a veteran player under the current CBA, Gilgeous-Alexander is suitable for gaining 35% of the wage limit of the team starting from 2027, when his current beginner extension ends.
According to the rules of the NBA, a player cannot have a contract longer than five years or has extensions that maintain the player with a team for more than six total years. As a result, with two years left in its extension, Gilgeous-Alexander has not been able to sign a contract more than four years.
If Gilgeous-Alexander had chosen to wait until next summer to sign the extension, which was a possibility, he could have signed a longer contract for more guaranteed money; Instead, Oklahoma City closes the face of the franchise first rather than after.