{"id":228164,"date":"2025-10-20T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228164\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:26:08","slug":"nuggets-christian-braun-reaches-125m-extension-agent-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228164\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets’ Christian Braun reaches $125M extension, agent says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shams CharaniaOct 21, 2025, 04:58 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Shams Charania is a senior NBA insider for ESPN. Charania reports NBA news and information across ESPN platforms and also contributes to ESPN’s exclusive coverage of the NBA draft. Charania has previously worked for FanDuel TV, Stadium, The Athletic, Yahoo Sports, RealGM and ChicagoNow. He is a Chicago native and graduated from Loyola University in 2017.<\/p>\n

Denver Nuggets<\/a> guard Christian Braun<\/a> has agreed to a five-year, $125 million rookie contract extension with the franchise, agent Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN on Monday.<\/p>\n

Braun, the No. 21 pick in the 2022 NBA draft, has been a developmental find and success for the Nuggets brass. The Nuggets’ top executives, Ben Tenzer and Jon Wallace, made it a priority to negotiate a new long-term deal to lock in Braun as part of the franchise’s core moving forward.<\/p>\n

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Braun became a full-time starter and averaged 15.4 points last season, up from 7.3 points in 2023-24, while recording 5.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 39.7% 3-point shooting per game over 79 contests (77 starts). He was one of just five players to average at least 15 points and five rebounds while shooting 58% from the field and the only non-center on that list.<\/p>\n

Braun’s growth at shooting guard is vital to support perennial MVP candidate Nikola Jokic<\/a>, star guard Jamal Murray<\/a>, integral forward Aaron Gordon<\/a> and newcomer Cameron Johnson<\/a>. Specifically in transition, Braun provides offense for the Nuggets, leading the NBA in total fast-break points last season, according to ESPN Research. He became the first player with at least 400 fast-break points in a season since Buddy Hield<\/a> in 2018-19.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets, meanwhile, are not expected to reach a rookie extension with Peyton Watson<\/a> ahead of Monday’s deadline, sources said. Watson was the Nuggets’ No. 30 selection in the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shams CharaniaOct 21, 2025, 04:58 AM CloseShams Charania is a senior NBA insider for ESPN. Charania reports NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-228164","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\/228164","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=228164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}