{"id":494225,"date":"2025-07-10T21:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=494225"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:19:22","slug":"jones-inks-a-3-year-68-million-dollar-extension-with-the-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jones-inks-a-3-year-68-million-dollar-extension-with-the-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones inks a 3-year, 68 million dollar extension with the Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans star Herb Jones has agreed to a 3-year, 68 million dollar deal extension with the organization, as his agents shared the news with the media.<\/p>\n<p>Herb now has a total of 5 years and almost 100 million dollars on his New Orleans contract, with a new player option for the 2029-30.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Herb Jones has agreed to a three-year, $68M contract extension with the Pelicans, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Jones&#39; deal with New Orleans now includes a total five years, $97M and a player option in 2029-30. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sh4ujVoORE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sh4ujVoORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/1943458336088686696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The forward has risen from a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection in the 2021 NBA Draft to a 2-way leader for the franchise, being selected as part of the 2023-24 All-Defensive 1<sup>st<\/sup> team. Jones is 1 of the 8 basketballers with 350 steals and 150 blocks since he entered the NBA. Herb has ranked in the top 10 in defense vs. isolations in the last 2 campaigns among basketballers to defend at least 150 isolations.<\/p>\n<p>He also shot a career-best 42% on 3-pointers 2 years ago. Jones appeared in only 20 matches in the past campaign because of shoulder\/labrum problems, which were the fewest in a campaign in the league. Despite that, the Pelicans trust him and bet on him to be part of the future of the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans star Herb Jones has agreed to a 3-year, 68 million dollar deal extension with the organization, as his agents shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":494226,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[25673,17204],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[25674,18565],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Herb signed an extension with New Orleans for the upcoming 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\/494225"}],"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=494225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494227,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494225\/revisions\/494227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494225"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=494225"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=494225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}