{"id":197797,"date":"2025-10-08T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197797\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:02:10","slug":"blazers-star-could-sign-100-million-extension-this-month-says-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197797\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Star Could Sign $100 Million Extension This Month, Says Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Trail Blazers have to figure out what they want to do with Shaedon Sharpe this season. They have to make a decision about his future by the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Sharpe is due for a rookie contract extension this season. He was the seventh overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft despite not playing a single minute for his collegiate team, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

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The Blazers have seen some flashes from Sharpe, but signing him to an extension would be committing a lot of money to him. One NBA insider believes Portland will do it and give him a lot of money in the extension.<\/p>\n

According to NBA Insider Jake Fischer of The Stein Line<\/a>, the Trail Blazers could end up giving him an extension worth something close to $100 million.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been told that the Blazers’ initial extension to Sharpe landed in the four-year, $90 million ballpark,” Fischer writes. “But when I speak to various team strategists, more often than not I hear an expectation that the bouncy swingman will ultimately command a Giddey-esque deal in the four-year, $100 million range. If not higher.”<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers still have to decide whether or not Sharpe’s offensive numbers at the end of the season were a fluke or not, and Stein notes that.<\/p>\n

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“His third-year numbers for the Blazers \u2014 particularly over the final 30 games \u2014 popped on numerous teams’ predictive models. Was that meaningful second-half stuff … or inflated production for a team out of contention?”<\/p>\n

Portland is going to have to see Sharpe’s numbers stay consistent over the first part of the season before they decide to hand over that much money to him.<\/p>\n

They desperately want someone on their team to turn into a star player so they can start competing for a playoff spot. Sharpe has some strong outbursts, but he needs consistency to reach that level.<\/p>\n

Last season, Sharpe averaged 18.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game. He shot 45.2 percent from the field and 31.1 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.<\/p>\n

For more news and notes on the Portland Trail Blazers, visit Portland Trail Blazers on SI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers have to figure out what they want to do with Shaedon Sharpe this season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-197797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197797","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=197797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}