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The pressure is given to the Thunder! Are Bankairo s 240 million Chett and Jewish worth the maximum salary?

9:04pm, 8 July 2025Basketball

Magic renewed striker Paul Bankairo in advance with a maximum salary of 239 million yuan in five years.

Bankero is the first rookie to renew his contract with a maximum salary in advance after Luca Doncic and Trae Young in 2021. It is estimated that the Thunder management is very depressed, and Chet Homegren and Jaylen Williams, who are in the same class, may also get the maximum salary. There are two interesting negotiation terms in the contract: the first is to be selected for the best team, or get the MVP and the best defensive player. The starting salary of the new contract has increased from 25% of the salary cap to 30%, and Ban Kairo got this clause. Another is the player option. Since Doncic and Trae Young, this is the team's bottom line. Anthony Edwards won't get a player option in his third season. Even the strongest Morant (selected in the second team of the best team in the third year) did not get it either.

Bankero was selected as the All-Star at the age of 21, and his data improved across the board last season. If it weren't for injury, he would have been selected as the All-Star twice in the first three years of his career. This is an achievement that Doncic has achieved. Of course, Bankairo and Doncic are still very different. Doncic was selected for the All-A-Series first team in the second and third seasons. Class considers never failed to enter the top 20 votes in the best team.

Magic actually gave Ban Kairo the option of a player, which would allow him to get a super contract one year ahead of schedule or become a full free agent in 2030.

Now the pressure is given to thunder. They are going to renew their contracts for the same second place winner, the No. 12 pick, Jaylen Williams. Jewei helped the Thunder win the championship and was likely to get his own maximum salary contract.

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