Anthony Davis might be underneath contract with the Los Angeles Lakers for the subsequent 5 seasons, after agreeing to an extension that comes with the very best per-season common wage in NBA historical past.
Davis and the Lakers have agreed on a three-year, $186 million contract extension, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul mentioned Friday. ESPN first reported that the Lakers and Davis struck the deal.
At a median worth of $62 million per season, the extension turns into the richest annual settlement in league historical past, surpassing the common of $60.8 million per season that Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown obtained final month as a part of his five-year supermax deal price as much as $304 million.
Davis is an eight-time All-Star and four-time All-NBA choice and was picked for the league’s seventy fifth anniversary group. He is coming off a season by which he averaged 25.9 factors, 12.5 rebounds, and a pair of.6 assists on a career-best 56 p.c taking pictures — numbers that characterize top-of-the-line years of his profession.
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The deal takes impact with the 2025-26 season. Davis will make about $40.6 million this coming season, then $43.2 million in 2024-25 — earlier than the extension kicks in and carries by way of 2027-28. It will push Davis’ profession on-court earnings to roughly $500 million by the point the contract expires, and within the ultimate three years of the deal, he’ll make about $750,000 for each regular-season recreation on the Lakers’ schedule.
The Lakers are 117-77 (a .603 profitable share) in regular-season video games by which Davis has performed throughout his 4 seasons with the membership; they’re 53-60 (a .469 profitable share) within the 113 video games that he has missed in that span.
When wholesome, he and LeBron James are nonetheless some of the formidable 1-2 punches within the NBA. They led the Lakers to the 2020 NBA title and helped the group attain the Western Conference finals this previous season — the place they have been swept by eventual champion Denver.
“We are trending in the right direction,” Davis mentioned when final season ended. “Obviously, the goal is to win championships, and we wanted to be not just knocking on the door but actually get it done, walk through the door. So that’s our goal. That’s our goal every time we step on the floor for training camp, and I’m 100 percent sure that will be the goal next year.”
Over his first 11 seasons, Davis has averaged 24 factors and 10.4 rebounds. He has scored not less than 50 factors in a recreation 5 occasions, not counting the 52 factors he had within the 2017 All-Star Game — which was a document till Boston’s Jayson Tatum scored 55 within the All-Star Game this previous February.
