{"id":836786,"date":"2026-08-01T01:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836786\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:04:10","slug":"chicago-bulls-zach-collins-speaks-about-contract-extension-time-with-the-zags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836786\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls\u2019 Zach Collins Speaks About Contract Extension, Time With the Zags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartfelt congratulations from The Slipper Still Fits to forward\/center <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5823\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Collins<\/a> on his two-year, $17 million contract extension to stay with the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/chicago\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> through the 2027-28 season. The injury bug has unfortunately hit the Gonzaga Bulldog quite a lot throughout his time with the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/portland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>, <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>, and with Chicago, so this new deal is a major victory for Collins as he enters his ninth season in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The site appreciates the 2016 McDonald&#8217;s All-American out of powerhouse Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas, Nevada, sharing some of his offseason time to discuss his lone season with the Zags back in 2016-17, senior center <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/players\/117527\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Przemek Karnowski<\/a> being his vet, his standout performance against the South Carolina Gamecocks in the Final Four in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Just an entertaining conversation with the big man from top to bottom. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Arden Cravalho\u00a0is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area\u2026 Follow him on X @a_cravalho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartfelt congratulations from The Slipper Still Fits to forward\/center Zach Collins on his two-year, $17 million contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,408788,2066,528,590,239209,7210,85,205503],"class_list":["post-836786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bishop-gorman","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-getty-images","tag-nba","tag-nbae","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-sports","tag-zach-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836786","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=836786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}