{"id":396050,"date":"2022-07-06T23:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/thunder-officially-sign-luguentz-dort-to-lucrative-extension\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T23:05:13","slug":"thunder-officially-sign-luguentz-dort-to-lucrative-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/thunder-officially-sign-luguentz-dort-to-lucrative-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder officially sign Luguentz Dort to lucrative extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Guard Luguentz Dort signed a multiyear contract on Wednesday to remain with the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/h1>\n<h2>Terms were not disclosed, although multiple reports last week cited the pact as a five-year, $87.5 million deal.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the club declined to pick up Dort&#8217;s $1.93 million option, which helped set the stage for a richer extension.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dort, 23, is one of the building blocks of a young roster that includes standout guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and rookie big man Chet Holmgren, the No. 2 overall pick of the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dort averaged a career-best 17.2 points in 51 games last season, his third year in the NBA. He also averaged 4.2 rebounds and 1.7 assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Dort has averages of 13.3 points and 3.5 rebounds in 139 games (131 starts).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dort began his tenure with Oklahoma City as undrafted player out of Arizona State.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guard Luguentz Dort signed a multiyear contract on Wednesday to remain with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Terms were not disclosed, although multiple reports last week cited the pact as a five-year, $87.5 million deal. Last month, the club declined to pick up Dort&#8217;s $1.93 million option, which helped set the stage for a richer extension. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","category-oklahoma-city-thunder"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}