{"id":466821,"date":"2023-10-23T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466821"},"modified":"2023-10-23T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:25:02","slug":"minnesota-mcdaniels-agree-to-5-year-136-million-dollar-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/minnesota-mcdaniels-agree-to-5-year-136-million-dollar-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota, McDaniels agree to 5-year, 136 million dollar deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves player Jaden McDaniels has agreed on a 5-season, 136 million dollar deal extension; his agents confirmed the news with the media today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jaden McDaniels has agreed to a five-year, $136M contract extension with the Timberwolves, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4YJUQLhd4i\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4YJUQLhd4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticNBA\/status\/1716522418728997143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The contract includes no options.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniels, who became 23 years old in September, enjoyed a breakout year last campaign, averaging 12 points while shooting over 50% from the field and almost 40% from the 3-point line and also became a starter for the Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>One of the league\u2019s best defenders in the past campaign, Jaden held opposing shooters to below 44% shooting as the nearest defender.<\/p>\n<p>With better defense stats last season in the NBA, only 2 players were Mikal Bridges and O.G. Anunoby.<\/p>\n<p>Jaden deal is in a similar range to the 4-year, 90 million extension that Bridges inked with Phoenix Suns in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves player Jaden McDaniels has agreed on a 5-season, 136 million dollar deal extension; his agents confirmed the news with the media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466822,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17159,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[21890,18338,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The forward inked a long-term contract with Timberwolves.","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\/466821"}],"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=466821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466824,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466821\/revisions\/466824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466821"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466821"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}