{"id":466731,"date":"2023-10-22T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466731"},"modified":"2023-10-22T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T00:01:14","slug":"avdija-inks-4-year-55-million-dollar-extension-with-wizards","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/avdija-inks-4-year-55-million-dollar-extension-with-wizards\/","title":{"rendered":"Avdija inks 4-year, 55 million dollar extension with Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wizards player Deni Avdija has agreed on a 4-year, 55 million-dollar deal extension, his agents confirmed the news today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija has agreed on a four-year, $55 million contract extension, his agent Doug Neustadt and Matan Siman-Tov tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CEEnAuSrNA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CEEnAuSrNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1716188803931459617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The young player (22) secured his rookie scale contract extension ahead of Monday\u2019s deadline for the 2020 NBA draft class players.<\/p>\n<p>Deni, the 9<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection in the class, has made his place in the franchise starting lineup and is expected to have an even more significant role with Washington this campaign in a 2-way role.<\/p>\n<p>Avdija averaged almost 10 points, 6.5 boards, 3 assists, and steal in 76 matches for the organization in the past campaign. He began from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute on the court in 40 matches \u2013 after having started the same number of games in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 campaigns combined.<\/p>\n<p>The forward finished with 11 double-doubles last campaign, twice the number he had in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>He played for Maccabi Tel Aviv before joining the league in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wizards player Deni Avdija has agreed on a 4-year, 55 million-dollar deal extension, his agents confirmed the news today. Washington Wizards forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17235],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[21881,17978,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The forward will remain in Washington for 4 more seasons.","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\/466731"}],"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=466731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466734,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466731\/revisions\/466734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466731"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466731"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}