{"id":793383,"date":"2026-07-11T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793383\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:02:15","slug":"wembanyama-signs-contract-with-spurs-for-five-years-252m-report-basketball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793383\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama signs contract with Spurs for five years, $252m: Report | Basketball News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Victor Wemnanyama, the NBA\u2019s tallest player, inked the third-largest rookie extension in history.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 11 Jul 202611 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Hours after he told Spurs fans he was \u201chere to stay\u201d, Victor \u2060Wembanyama signed a \u2060multiyear contract extension with San Antonio that ESPN reported is for five years and $252m.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, \u2060which is worth $50.4m per year, is the National Basketball Association\u2019s (NBA) maximum rookie-scale extension and carries a player option \u2060for the fifth season.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpurs family, I\u2019m here to stay,\u201d Wembanyama tweeted Friday. \u201cWhatever it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs, who did not confirm financial details, published photos and videos of Wembanyama inking his \u200ccontract.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama has been viewed as one of the elite young players in the sport going back before the Spurs selected him No 1 overall in the 2023 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 7ft4in (2.24-metre) centre with an 8-ft (2.44-metre) wingspan has averaged 23.4 points, 11 rebounds, 3.5 assists \u2060and 3.5 blocks per game through \u2060three NBA seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Defensive Player of the Year and a first-time All-NBA first-team selection, Wembanyama finished third in Most Valuable Player (MVP) balloting this season \u2060after putting up career highs of 25.0 points and 11.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>He \u2060is a career 34.2% 3-point shooter \u2060who has made 2.2 triples per game, and he\u2019s led the league in blocks in every season since his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs fell to \u200cthe New York Knicks in five games last month in Wembanyama\u2019s first NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The current pieces around \u200chim \u200cinclude guards De\u2019Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, Devin Vassell and Dylan Harper, and the Spurs recently signed veteran forward Tobias Harris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4759178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26160133831720-1783755114.jpg\" alt=\"Victor \u2060Wembanyama reacts.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Wembanyama, left, with teammate Stephon Castle during the NBA Finals in June [Ross D Franklin\/AP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wemnanyama, the NBA\u2019s tallest player, inked the third-largest rookie extension in history. Published On 11 Jul 202611&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,44,588,85,1055,6075],"class_list":["post-793383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793383","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=793383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}