{"id":503850,"date":"2025-10-20T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=503850"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:36:41","slug":"braun-inks-a-5-year-125-million-dollar-extension-with-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/braun-inks-a-5-year-125-million-dollar-extension-with-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Braun inks a 5-year, 125 million dollar extension with Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets player Christian Braun has agreed to a 5-season, 125 million dollar rookie deal extension with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The guard, who was the 21st selection in the NBA Draft 3 years ago, and now his future will be with the franchise, as the Nuggets did everything possible to secure the extension of the basketballer, as they see him as part of their future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Christian Braun last season:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 15.4 PPG | 5.2 RPG | 1.1 SPG<br \/>\u2014 58.0 FG%<br \/>\u2014 66.5 TS%<br \/>\u2014 1st in transition buckets <\/p>\n<p>Highest TS% by a guard with 15+ PPG since 2018 Steph. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UNs7KtWJxw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UNs7KtWJxw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1980344592588501274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Christian became a full-time starter and averaged over 15 points in the past campaign, up from 7.3 points in the previous season, while also recording over 5 boards, almost 3 assists, and shot almost 40% from the 3-point range in 79 games, as 77 started from the 1st minute on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Braun is a crucial part of the current roster that features stars like Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, as he became the 1st basketballer with at least 400 fast-break points in a campaign since Buddy Hield 8 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Denver, at the same time, is not expected to ink an extension with Peyton Watson ahead of today\u2019s deadline, as Peyton was the 30<sup>th<\/sup> pick at the draft 3 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets player Christian Braun has agreed to a 5-season, 125 million dollar rookie deal extension with the organization. The guard, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":503851,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26919,16736],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19845,17859],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Christian signed a new long-term deal with Denver.","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\/503850"}],"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=503850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/503850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503852,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/503850\/revisions\/503852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503850"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=503850"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=503850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}