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The average annual salary exceeds 57 million, and it was revealed that Thunder spent the highest 287 million yuan to renew his contract with Jiewei! It has impacted the winning streak of Weiye

8:42am, 11 July 2025【Basketball】

After this summer's offseason, many teams in the league are taking strengthening measures, and the Thunder, which has just won the championship, is working hard to keep the core team. Isn't this? After locking in Alexander for 4 years and $285 million, the Thunder management offered center Homgren a full guarantee contract of 239 million, up to 250 million in five years.

Shortly afterwards, famous journalist Shams continued to add that the Thunder had reached an early contract renewal with Jaylen Williams, up to 5 years and $287 million.

Of course, based on the starting salary, the basic version of Jerwei's contract may be 239 million in five years. But if the starting salary is calculated based on 30% of the salary cap, Jewe will have the opportunity to get the top-end version of $287 million in five years. After all, his contract will be linked to his performance next season. If he does not win one of the MVP, Best Defensive Player, and Best Team Team honors, then the big contract will be the basic version of 239 million; if he can get one of the three, he will be able to get up to 287 million US dollars.

As the 12th pick in the first round of 2022, Jaylen Williams is only 24 years old and has played for the Thunder for three seasons since his debut in his career. This season, he played 69 games in the regular season and averaged 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.1 assists, and 1.6 steals per game, with a shooting percentage of 48.4%, and a three-point shooting percentage of 36.5%. In the playoffs, he averaged 21.4 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists, and 1.4 steals per game, with a shooting percentage of 44.9%, and a three-point shooting percentage of 30.4%.

's offensive and defensive output is not much different from the regular season performance, but the offensive efficiency has declined a little, but in the end, he helped the Thunder win the championship as the second in command.

You may think that there are many stars in the league who average scores above 21 points. Why does Jewe have the opportunity to get an annual salary of more than US$57 million? Then the author will explain the logic that the management gave him the maximum salary.

Since the Thunder's goal is to strive for consecutive championships and even establish a great cause of dynasty, we must leave this group of young core teams to avoid repeating the mistakes of Durant, Westbrook and Harden in the past.

Jewe is still in the rising period, and he is only 24 years old, with both offense and defense. His playing style is quite balanced and he can be the team's No. 1 or No. 2 organizer. Therefore, what Thunder values ​​is his upward space and current combat power. In other words, even if the Thunder really cannot retain Alexander and Jewish due to salary pressure in the future, they can completely trade them to a new team in order to exchange for more chips.

In this way, the contract renewal of the Thunder management can be said to be able to attack and retreat or defend.

is an all-round attack and defense, but has an all-round play. Jewe can be regarded as Leonard at the peak of the "weakened version". If he grows up normally, he will have the opportunity to become the league's MVP like his teammate Alexander; by then, the Thunder will have a double peak MVP, and it will be possible to sweep the entire West by imitating the Warriors, and it is not impossible to establish a dynasty.

After leaving the three young cores, the Thunder spent up to $822 million on these three, which is a huge sum of money. This is the determination and sincerity of the management - working hard to build a dynasty team.

Of course, the reason why such a large contract is related to the possible surge in the league's salary cap in the future.

But the cosmic courage of the past is hard to come by. At that time, Durant was able to successfully join the Warriors, which was related to Curry's four-year, $44 million contract. Furthermore, Curry, Clay and Durant can be said to be the best pitchers in their respective positions. The Warriors also have Green at the peak DPOY and the top 3D Iguodala, as well as the middle distance master Livingston and David West with rich inside experience. At that time, the Warriors also encountered a sharp increase in salary cap, and various favorable factors combined to give birth to a super team.

Obviously, this Thunder team does not have all the above factors. In another season or two, top-level players Harten and Caruso may not be able to stay. But they finally got the opportunity to establish a dynasty, which is something that the boss of any team doesn't want to miss.

Unless, it is the Denver Nuggets, which is a bit of a waste of resources in the past two seasons; but it is still a failure to make up for the bad luck, and the operation of this summer's offseason is very good, and Jokic's Nuggets are alive again.