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The highest salary in the league was born, with two maximum salary renewals, Alexander ranked first in the league over Tatum

3:46pm, 3 July 2025【Basketball】

All honor bonuses, Alexander renewed the contract with Thunder in advance!

Signing Day begins, and all teams have begun to strengthen or renew their contracts. Shams reported that Alexander and the Thunder reached an early renewal of their super maximum salary, with a contract of US$285 million for 4 years, making him the highest annual salary in NBA history!

The last contract renewal was in the summer of 2021. Alexander and the Thunder completed a five-year, $172 million salary contract. There are two years left in the contract, namely $38.33 million in the 2025-26 season and $40.8 million in the 2026-27 season. The just-completed early contract renewal will allow Alexander and the Thunder to cooperate until the end of the 2030-31 season! His final year salary for this new contract is $78.77 million, exceeding Tatum's salary in the 2028-29 season to $71.45 million.

In the just-concluded season, Alexander won many honors, regular season MVP, and FMVP in the finals. In the playoffs, Alexander also set several records.

has scored 20+ in 71 consecutive games in the regular season, ranking third in the league history. In the finals tiebreak game, Alexander scored 29 points, 5 rebounds and 12 assists. Since Walter Fraser in 1970, he is the first guard player in NBA history to score 20+ points, 5 rebounds and 10+ assists in the finals tiebreak game.

scored 31 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists in the first match of the Western Conference Finals, becoming the first player in the Thunder to score 30+5 assists in a single season playoff 7 times.

In the Western Conference semi-finals G2, he scored 34 points in just 30 minutes, with a plus-negative value of up to +51, ranking third in NBA playoff history.

led the Thunder to beat the Nuggets by 43 points in the playoffs, setting a record for the largest net win in the team history. After winning the Thunder, Alexander posted a long article to respond to the outside world's doubts about himself. At the end of the article, he wrote: Staring at Larry O'Brien's Golden Cup, my only competitor, the only reflection of my own in the mirror.