{"id":752161,"date":"2026-06-21T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:38:09","slug":"cj-mccollum-stays-with-atlanta-hawks-on-one-year-21m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752161\/","title":{"rendered":"CJ McCollum stays with Atlanta Hawks on one-year, $21M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Atlanta Hawks guard CJ McCollum has agreed to a one-year, $21 million contract extension with the franchise, his agent told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal includes a trade kicker, according to agent Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCollum had been eligible for an extension until June 30, at which point he would have been a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCollum, 34, was traded from the Washington Wizards to the Hawks in January in the Trae Young deal, and the veteran guard was a major reason why Atlanta held a 2-1 series lead against the eventual NBA champion New York Knicks\u00a0in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCollum&#8217;s 15-foot fadeaway with 12.7 seconds left won Game 3, and his 32 points helped Atlanta win Game 2 in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCollum helped the Hawks win 18 of 20 games during one late-season surge that boosted Atlanta to a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 13-year veteran averaged 18.7 points per game while shooting 35.7% from 3 in 41 games with the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCollum made at least 150 3-pointers for the 11th straight season. He is the only player to make that many 3-pointers in every season since 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ESPN&#8217;s Ohm Youngmisuk contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks guard CJ McCollum has agreed to a one-year, $21 million contract extension with the franchise, his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[118777,49,48,268865,459,82],"class_list":["post-752161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cj-mccollum-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-522878","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}