{"id":783892,"date":"2026-07-07T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783892\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:32:09","slug":"nikola-jokic-confirms-he-plans-to-re-sign-with-nuggets-but-next-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783892\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic confirms he plans to re-sign with Nuggets, but next summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nba\/news\/nikola-jokic-i-still-want-to-be-a-nugget-forever-but-other-changes-coming-to-denver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nikola Jokic made his intentions clear <\/a>after Denver\u2019s unexpectedly early playoff exit: \u201cI still want to be a Nugget forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, some people wanted to read into Jokic not signing an extension with the Nuggets this offseason, but Jokic \u2014 after playing for Serbia in a FIBA World Cup qualifying game yesterday \u2014 once again was unequivocal.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic has two years and $121.9 million left on his current contract, with the final year of that deal being a player option.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why he\u2019s going to wait: Right now, and through the end of next season, Jokic can sign a four-year, $278 million max extension; if he waits until next summer, he can sign a historic five-year, $359.5 million deal \u2014 the largest in NBA history. And he could get a no-trade clause.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic is coming off a season in which he averaged 27.7 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.7 assists per game \u2014 averaging a triple-double \u2014 and he finished second in MVP voting. While he struggled in the playoffs with his 3-pointer and defense, a big part of that is the roster around him needs to be improved. Bottom line, he is a top-three player in the world in his prime, and the Nuggets are going to pay up.<\/p>\n<p>Just next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic made his intentions clear after Denver\u2019s unexpectedly early playoff exit: \u201cI still want to be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-783892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783892","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=783892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}