{"id":439254,"date":"2023-07-06T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/anthony-edwards-agrees-to-5-year-contract-extension-with-timberwolves\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T08:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:27:32","slug":"anthony-edwards-agrees-to-5-year-contract-extension-with-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anthony-edwards-agrees-to-5-year-contract-extension-with-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards agrees to 5-year contract extension with Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> has agreed terms with his current team Minnesota Timberwolves to a 5-year contract extension, which is believed to be around $260m, reports say.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards has agreed on a five-year designated rookie maximum deal that could be worth $260 million, his agents Bill Duffy and Joe Branch of WME tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d0UTdqFgD9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/d0UTdqFgD9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1675903870684344320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old will enter his final year of his rookie contract, which will earn him $13.5m. The maximum deal will begin from 2024-25 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m humbled, appreciative and excited to remain in Minnesota as a part of this incredible Timberwolves organization,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see where hard work can take you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The youngster will be entering his 4th year with the Timberwolves as he finished the 2022-23 season with e pretty decent numbers &#8211; 24.6 points on average, 5.8 rebounds and 4.4 assists, while shooting 46.9 percent from the field and 36.9 percent from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards has agreed terms with his current team Minnesota Timberwolves to a 5-year contract extension, which is believed to be around $260m, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439255,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17160,17159],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The 21-year-old will be staying at Minnesota after an impressive rookie spell"},"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\/439254"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439254"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439254"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}