LAS VEGAS \u2014 Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama issued a tweet Friday that signals he may have already agreed to a highly anticipated new long-term contract extension that would make him the highest-paid player in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Although there has been no official word from the team, the 22-year-old Frenchman got the basketball world buzzing when he posted a rare message on X.<\/p>\n
“Spurs family, I’m here to stay. Whatever it takes,” the post on\u00a0Wembanyama’s official account read.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama making a long-term commitment to the Spurs has never been in doubt, but there is speculation he may sign for less than his maximum\u00a0rookie scale extension to provide the franchise with greater financial flexibility after it reached the NBA Finals this past season.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama, who will play next season on an expiring $16.7 million rookie-scale contract that ranks as one of the biggest bargains in NBA history, became eligible Monday to sign a five-year, $251 million maximum extension.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Should he earn an All-NBA selection, MVP award or Defensive Player of the Year honors during the 2026-27 campaign, his extension escalates to a maximum of $301 million.<\/p>\n
The new deal would begin with the 2027-28 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wembanyama was the unanimous choice for Defensive Player of the Year last season. He was also named First-Team All-NBA and finished third in the MVP voting behind Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Denver’s Nikola Jokic.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama led the Spurs to a 62-20 record last season and the club’s first appearance in the Finals since it won its fifth title in 2014. In 64 games, he averaged a career-best 25.0 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists, a league-best 3.08 blocks and 1.03 steals in 29.2 minutes per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama issued a tweet Friday that signals he may have already agreed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-369176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}