{"id":130990,"date":"2025-09-09T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130990\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:49:11","slug":"josh-giddey-agrees-to-4-year-100m-extension-with-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130990\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey agrees to 4-year, $100M extension with Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Restricted free agent Josh Giddey<\/a> has reached agreement on a four-year, $100 million contract to re-sign with the Chicago Bulls<\/a>, agent Daniel Moldovan of Lighthouse Sports Management told ESPN on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The deal is fully guaranteed and contains no player or team options. The Bulls announced the contract on Tuesday but did not disclose terms.<\/p>\n

Giddey, 22, cements himself as the Bulls’ cornerstone at starting point guard, following the franchise landing him via trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> for Alex Caruso<\/a> during the 2024 offseason.<\/p>\n

Giddey is coming off a career season in Chicago, scoring 14.6 points per game while averaging career-highs in rebounds (8.1), assists (7.2), steals (1.2) and 3-point field goal percentage (37.8%). He posted seven triple-doubles, the second most in a campaign in Bulls history, trailing Michael Jordan in 1988-89 (15).<\/p>\n

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Giddey’s performances went to a higher level after the All-Star break and the trade of All-Star guard Zach LaVine<\/a>. The 6-foot-8 product shined as a leader of the Bulls, averaging 21.2 points, 10.7 rebounds and 9.3 assists on 50% shooting, including 46% on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

On March 22 against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, Giddey became the first player with 15 points, 15 assists, 10 rebounds and eight steals in an NBA game since steals became an official stat in 1973-74. The Bulls had a 15-5 finish to last season to secure a play-in tournament berth; Giddey played in 13 of those games and averaged 20.6 points, 10.7 rebounds and 9.7 assists over that span.<\/p>\n

For the final month of the season, he played through a muscle tear in the palm of his shooting hand.<\/p>\n

Giddey was the No. 6 pick in the 2021 NBA draft by Oklahoma City, and he quickly showcased an ability to fill the stat sheet. Giddey remains the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double when he posted 17 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds at 19 years and 84 days old as a member of the Thunder on Jan. 2, 2022, against the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He becomes the second restricted free agent to land on a deal in September after Nets guard Cam Thomas<\/a> signed a one-year, $6 million qualifying offer last week. Golden State’s Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> and Philadelphia’s Quentin Grimes<\/a> remain as the outstanding restricted free agents.<\/p>\n

Entering free agency this summer, only a few teams had salary cap space, which created a freeze for the restricted market. The Brooklyn Nets<\/a> have operated as the only team with real salary cap space for the majority of the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restricted free agent Josh Giddey has reached agreement on a four-year, $100 million contract to re-sign with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-130990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}