(Photo : Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – Anthony Davis (#3) of the Los Angeles Lakers warms up earlier than Game One of the Western Conference Semifinals towards the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center on May 02, 2023, in San Francisco, California.
Los Angeles Lakers famous person Anthony Davis has agreed to a three-year most contract extension value $186 million which can hold him with the purple-and-gold franchise till the 2027-28 NBA season, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul informed Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN on Friday.
BREAKING: Lakers star Anthony Davis has agreed on a three-year $186M max extension, tying him to franchise via 2028 for whole of $270M-plus, @KlutchSports CEO Rich Paul tells ESPN. Davis lands richest annual extension in NBA historical past at $62M. pic.twitter.com/bf9kWgD7uz
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 4, 2023
The 30-year-old’s extension will web him a median pay of $62 million per season, the biggest in NBA historical past. Davis signed a five-year, $190 million extension with the Lakers in 2020.
The eight-time NBA All-Star’s present deal expires two years from now, and he’s set to receives a commission $40.6 million in 2023-24 and $43.2 million in 2024-25.
The Lakers can pay Davis $57.6 million in 2025-26, $62.2 million in 2026-27, and $66.8 million in 2027-28 within the new extension, per ESPN entrance workplace insider Bobby Marks.
Widely thought to be one of many biggest energy forwards of all time, Davis was named to the NBA seventy fifth Anniversary Team, honoring the 75 biggest gamers in league historical past throughout the 2021-22 NBA season.
The four-time All-NBA First Team member helped the Lakers win their seventeenth NBA championship in franchise historical past within the bubble throughout the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Second $60 million participant in NBA historical past
Alongside Portland Trail Blazers famous person Damian Lillard, Davis would be the second participant in NBA historical past to safe greater than $60 million in wage for a single season.
Both gamers will obtain the milestone within the 2026-27 NBA season. Lillard’s payday is the ultimate yr of his present deal, whereas Davis could have one other $60 million season in 2027-28.
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