Beijing News (reporter Xu Bangyin) Following the 2017 No. 5 rookie Fox got a contract of hundreds of millions of dollars, the No. 13 rookie Mitchell and Tanhua Tatum in 2017 have also renewed their contracts with their respective teams in advance, and both received the maximum salary contract.
Tatum's top salary extension for the Celtics. Photo/Social Media
On November 23, according to US media reports, the Jazz and Donovan Mitchell renewed their contract early, with a new contract of 195 million US dollars for 5 years, including 163 million US dollars of guarantees, and shortly after, Tatum also renewed the Celtics early with the same contract. As the two best stars in the class of 2017, they signed the biggest contract that a rookie in their class can get.
As is customary, rookie contracts last 4 years, with the final year being a team option. The new season will be the contract year for the 2017 rookies, in order to retain the rookies who have performed well, the teams will often send good conditions to the contract a year in advance, and the Kings have left the core guard Fox with a large contract, and the Jazz and Celtics are naturally not far behind.
The Jazz retained core Mitchell with big contracts. Photo/Social Media
After three seasons with the Jazz, Donovan Mitchell's progress was evident. He averaged 20.5 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game in his rookie season, and was successfully selected to the All-Rookie Team, averaging 24 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game in the regular season last season, and was selected for the All-Star Regular Game for the first time.
Especially in last season's playoffs, in the seven games with the Nuggets, Mitchell averaged 36.3 points, 5 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, including 57 points and 51 points in the first and fourth games, creating a series of historical records. Although the team was unable to break through the first round of the playoffs for two consecutive years, the Jazz still gave the guard an early salary cap.
Tatum's experience is similar to Mitchell's, as a 2017 tanner, the rookie season has become the main force of the Celtics, and the playoffs have been good. After 3 seasons of tempering, Tatum has been the absolute core of the team, averaging 23.4 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists per game in the regular season last season, successfully becoming an All-Star, leading the team to the Eastern Conference Finals in the playoffs, and receiving a maximum salary contract in advance has long been nailed.
Mitchell and Tatum's top salary contracts both include incentives, and if they can be selected to the NBA's best team in the new season, the $163 million partial guarantee will be converted to a full guarantee of $195 million. Considering that Tatum was selected to the all-time team of the season last season, and Mitchell, who has been baptized by the playoffs, has basically locked in a seat in the best team of the new season, the two have a high probability of getting the full amount of the $195 million contract.
Beijing News reporter Xu Bangyin
Edited by Zhang Yunfeng Proofreader Zhao Lin