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Porzingis’ new contract will hold him in Boston by means of the 2025-26 season.
Lower than a month after the Celtics pulled off a blockbuster, three-team swap to usher in Kristaps Porzingis, Boston is formally retaining the large man in place for the foreseeable future.
The Celtics introduced on Wednesday afternoon that it has formally signed Porzingis to a contract extension, finishing an anticipated transaction that was first reported again in late June.
Although the 7-foot-3 heart was eligible to signal a two-year, $77 million extension, league sources advised Adam Himmselbach of The Boston Globe that Porzingis signed a two-year, $60 million contract with Boston.
Porzingis is now signed by means of the 2025-26 season, with the 27-year-old heart/energy ahead taking a $36 million participant possibility this 12 months with a view to facilitate the commerce from Washington to Boston.
He’s coming off of arguably one of the best season of his profession with Washington in 2022-23, averaging 23.2 factors per recreation to go together with 8.4 rebounds per recreation. He shot 49.8 p.c from the sector and 38.5 p.c from past the arc.
It was a busy transactional day for the Celtics, as Boston additionally formally introduced the sign-and-trade take care of the Mavericks and Spurs that despatched Grant Williams to Dallas with a brand new four-year, $53 million contract.
Within the sign-and-trade, the Celtics now maintain the extra favorable of Chicago’s or New Orleans’s second-round picks in 2024, the Mavericks’ personal 2030 second-round choice, and the appropriate to swap a beforehand acquired 2025 second-round decide (the extra favorable of Washington, Golden State, or Detroit) with Dallas’s personal 2025 second-round decide.
The Celtics now have yet one more main goal on their offseason to-do record — signal Jaylen Brown to a supermax contract extension.
Jared Weiss of The Athletic reported earlier this week that the Celtics and Brown are getting nearer to creating a deal “over the approaching week.”
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