Toronto Raptors heart Jakob Poeltl has agreed on a four-year, $104 million contract extension with the franchise by means of 2029-30, sources informed ESPN.
Poeltl will decide up his 2026-27 participant choice at $19.5M and add three extra years to his deal.
The Raptors and Poeltl’s brokers, Michael Tellem and Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports activities, mentioned a number of frameworks of a deal resembling opt-out-and-extend — however the sides landed on an opt-in-and-extend, giving the group flexibility within the subsequent two seasons.
Poeltl averaged profession highs in minutes (29.6), factors (14.5) and rebounds (9.6) this previous season, capturing 63% from the sphere — fifth greatest within the NBA amongst certified gamers. He’s one in every of simply three gamers leaguewide to shoot 60% or higher from the sphere in every of the previous eight seasons, together with Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert and Denver’s DeAndre Jordan. He has additionally shot 64% from the ground in his 5 seasons with the Raptors, one of the best mark in franchise historical past amongst gamers with 500-plus pictures, rating within the prime 10 in area purpose proportion on floaters (minimal 100 FGA) and area purpose proportion on layups/dunks (minimal 300 FGA) this previous season per GeniusIQ, and top-10 in display assists per sport and factors per sport from display assists final season.
The 29-year-old large man has 4 profession 30-point video games, two coming this previous season.
Poeltl, who Toronto drafted in ninth general within the 2016 NBA draft, additionally spent four-plus seasons with San Antonio the place he averaged 8.8 factors, 7.3 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 326 video games for the Spurs. The Raptors re-acquired the middle from San Antonio in a February 2023 commerce for Khem Birch and a number of other draft picks.
Toronto additionally signed free agent ahead/heart Sandro Mamukelashvili to a two-year, $5.5 million deal, with the second yr being a participant choice, sources informed ESPN.
George Roussakis and Mark Bartelstein of Precedence Sports activities negotiated the brand new deal.