{"id":438743,"date":"2023-06-28T18:47:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T22:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438743"},"modified":"2023-06-28T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T22:47:36","slug":"nikola-vucevic-to-stay-in-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nikola-vucevic-to-stay-in-chicago-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Vucevic to stay in Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Vucevic will remain a <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> player as he inked a 3-year, 60 million dollars extension, the NBA franchise shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Chicago Bulls and center Nikola Vucevic are nearing a three-year, $60 million contract extension, league sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tpm5j33gCc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tpm5j33gCc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1674142571101319169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The center agents told ESPN&#8217;s Wojnarowski that the contract is for 3 campaigns and Nikola will earn for the whole period 60 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The player, who will be 33 years old at the beginning of the next NBA campaign, participated in all 82 matches and scored more than 17 points per game for Chicago in the past season.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola\u2019s notching and boarding stability and his lack of injuries were the main reasons the Bulls offered him a contract extension. He joined Chicago from the Orlando Magic in 2021 for two 1<sup>st<\/sup> round picks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nikola Vucevic as a Bull:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 18.2 PPG<br \/>\n\u2014 11.1 RPG<br \/>\n\u2014 49\/34\/81%<br \/>\n\u2014 Most threes all-time by a Chicago center<\/p>\n<p>3 more years as a Bull. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qdvhSUXipv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qdvhSUXipv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1674141931486543872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Vucevic will remain a Chicago Bulls player as he inked a 3-year, 60 million dollars extension, the NBA franchise shared today. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17157],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20162,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He signs a new 3-season, $60M extension.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438743"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438743"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}