{"id":797556,"date":"2026-07-12T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:25:18","slug":"victor-wembanyama-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797556\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Association crew reacts to Victor Wembanyama reaching a multi-year contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Victor Wembanyama has signed what will be the richest contract in San Antonio Spurs history, a five-year extension that could reportedly exceed $250 million if the player option in the final season is picked up.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs, who went to the NBA Finals this past season behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/2025-26-all-nba-teams-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the All-NBA center<\/a> and unanimous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/kia-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-award-2025-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kia Defensive Player of the Year<\/a>, announced that Wembanyama had signed, simply saying <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/spurs\/status\/2075715246774440295\" rel=\"nofollow\">the sides agreed<\/a> on \u201ca multi-year contract extension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s official \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve signed <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wemby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@wemby<\/a> to a multi-year contract extension! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SeSKtf7mlR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SeSKtf7mlR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/spurs\/status\/2075715246774440295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agreement, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2075712917098611093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported by ESPN<\/a>, comes at a discount; Wembanyama could have agreed to a deal that topped $300 million \u2014 but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2075718312168968681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chose a lesser amount<\/a> to help give the Spurs flexibility going forward with their young core and in anticipation of the contracts some of those budding stars will be eligible for in coming years.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A special day \ud83d\ude01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5rLufPWLYs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5rLufPWLYs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/spurs\/status\/2075721234315444325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Association crew reacts to Victor Wembanyama reaching a multi-year contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs. SAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82,281105],"class_list":["post-797556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-spurs-sign-victor-wembanyama-to-multi-year-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797556","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=797556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}