{"id":933201,"date":"2026-10-19T01:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933201\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T01:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:14:19","slug":"reports-phoenix-suns-extend-oso-ighodaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933201\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Phoenix Suns extend Oso Ighodaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364874\" class=\"wp-image-2364874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oso-Ighodaro-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2364874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Phoenix Suns are reportedly extending center Oso Ighodaro.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Suns and Oso Ighodaro have reportedly agreed to a 3-year, $29 million contract extension, per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns are picking up Ighodaro\u2019s team option for the 2027-28 season. The extension will start in 2028 and will run through 2031.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Suns are picking up Ighodaro&#8217;s $2.5M team option for 2027-28, so the extension starts in 2028 and runs through 2031 for the franchise&#8217;s second-round find who has established into a reliable center. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wPhFMCxiZm\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/wPhFMCxiZm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2111960731260498243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second-round pick in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\/draft\/2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 NBA Draft<\/a>, Ighodaro has helped the Suns as a reliable backup center. During the 2025-26 NBA season, he played in all 82 games and averaged 6.5 ppg, 5.1 rpg and 2.3 apg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the injury to Mark Williams, who will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/phoenix-suns-mark-williams-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">out indefinitely<\/a> due to a left shoulder injury, Ighodaro looks to make an impact with the Suns\u2019 center rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns are reportedly extending center Oso Ighodaro. The Phoenix Suns and Oso Ighodaro have reportedly agreed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,499963,499964,85],"class_list":["post-933201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-oso-ighodaro-extension","tag-oso-ighodaro-suns","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933201","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=933201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}