Joel Embiid indicators 3-year, $192.9 million extension with Sixers: Report
Joel Embiid indicators 3-year, $192.9 million extension with Sixers: Report initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Philadelphia
Add a number of extra years to the Sixers’ longest-tenured contract.
Famous person heart Joel Embiid has signed a three-year, roughly $192.9 million extension with the crew that runs by way of the 2028-29 season, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne reported Friday morning.
The seven-time All-Star is ready to make roughly $51.4 million within the 2024-25 season and $55.2 million in 2025-26, in accordance with Spotrac. The extension will begin within the 2026-27 marketing campaign.
The Sixers later formally introduced that Embiid signed a “multi-year” extension.
“I began a Sixer and need to be proper right here for the remainder of my profession. I had no thought after I was drafted as a 20-year-old child from Cameroon how fortunate I used to be to be in Philadelphia,” Embiid mentioned in a crew press launch. “By all of the ups and downs, this metropolis and the followers have been all the things, and I’m so grateful for the way they’ve embraced me. I need to thank (managing companions Josh Harris and David Blitzer) and your entire group. Philadelphia is dwelling and it’s time to deliver this group an NBA championship.”
Embiid has typically been within the highlight for the Sixers for the reason that franchise drafted him with the No. 3 choose a decade in the past. In a well-recognized story, his availability dictated a lot of the crew’s fortunes final season. The Sixers went 31-8 in video games Embiid performed and 16-27 in video games he didn’t.
After being named NBA MVP for the 2022-23 season, Embiid appeared considerably extra dominant for stretches final 12 months and scored a Sixers-record 70 factors vs. the Spurs on Jan. 22. He averaged 34.7 factors, 11.0 rebounds and 5.6 assists in his first season with head coach Nick Nurse.
Nonetheless, Embiid was sidelined on his thirtieth birthday in March as he rehabbed from a left lateral meniscus harm. Whereas he returned late within the common season, Embiid had semi-regular harm scares and in addition handled Bell’s palsy in the course of the playoffs. He nonetheless managed to publish 33.0 factors, 10.8 rebounds and 5.7 assists per sport over the Sixers’ first-round sequence loss to the Knicks.
“Simply acquired to discover a solution to get higher as a basketball participant, as an individual, as a pacesetter and are available again and hope that all the things else aligns,” Embiid mentioned following the Sixers’ Sport 6 defeat.
One main star did align for the Sixers this offseason within the type of Paul George, who determined to hitch Embiid and 23-year-old All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey in Philadelphia. The Sixers will hope George can reduce the burden on Embiid and Maxey to create pictures and summon late-game heroics.
Embiid, who took dwelling a gold medal from the Paris Olympics this summer season as a part of Crew USA’s males’s basketball squad, will begin his first coaching camp with George on Oct. 1 within the Bahamas.
