{"id":764159,"date":"2026-06-27T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:41:08","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-to-keep-isaiah-hartenstein-on-new-3-year-deal-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764159\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder to keep Isaiah Hartenstein on new 3-year deal, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Isaiah Hartenstein intends to sign a new three-year, $75 million contract to return to the Oklahoma City Thunder through the 2028-29 season, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hartenstein&#8217;s reps, Andrew Morrison and Aaron Mintz of CAA Sports, negotiated a deal with the Thunder that includes a maximum 15% trade kicker and a unique mutual option that allows both parties to rework the agreement again in 2028 before the final season, sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The contract brings Hartenstein&#8217;s total earnings with the Thunder at five years and $134 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 7-foot, 250-pound center, Hartenstein arrived in Oklahoma City as a free agent in the summer of 2024 and proved to be one of the finishing pieces of the Thunder&#8217;s championship puzzle, filling a glaring need for a physical interior presence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hartenstein, 28, averaged 10.3 points, 10.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists in his first two seasons in Oklahoma City, primarily serving as the Thunder&#8217;s starting center. He has dealt with a variety of injuries during his tenure in OKC, including a broken left thumb that sidelined him to start the 2024-25 season and a lingering right calf strain last season that limited him to 104 games over the two regular seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hartenstein has played in all 38 of the Thunder&#8217;s playoff games over the past two years, starting 35 of them. He has averaged 9.1 points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists in the postseason for Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ESPN&#8217;s Tim MacMahon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaiah Hartenstein intends to sign a new three-year, $75 million contract to return to the Oklahoma City Thunder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,140547,459,139173,82],"class_list":["post-764159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-isaiah-hartenstein-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1057004","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-25","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764159","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=764159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}