Nikola Jokic has knowledgeable the Nuggets he is not going to signal a contract extension this offseason, group sources advised The Denver Publish, because the three-time MVP intends to attend till subsequent summer time to have interaction in contract talks.
Jokic has a minimal of two years remaining on his present supermax contract, in addition to a participant choice for the 2027-28 season. Tuesday was the primary day he was eligible for an extension that might add as much as three years and $212 million to that deal.
Nonetheless, he can earn a further $80 million, roughly, by pushing off an extension till the 2026 offseason.
The Nuggets offered each choices to Jokic in conversations with him and his illustration. Jokic’s camp is electing to attend — a call that Nuggets management was anticipating due to the cash on the desk, group sources mentioned.
“We’re undoubtedly going to supply it,” KSE vice chairman Josh Kroenke mentioned in June. “I’m unsure if he’s going to just accept it or not, as a result of we’re additionally going to clarify each monetary parameter round him signing now versus signing later. To be fully clear, that’s the way in which we at all times are. After which he makes the most effective resolution for himself and his household, and we’ll assist him in it.”
Jokic, 30, is coming off a profession 12 months. He cemented himself because the third participant and first heart in NBA historical past to common a triple-double for a complete season, ending at 29.6 factors, 12.7 rebounds and 10.2 assists per sport. He completed second in MVP voting to Oklahoma Metropolis’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, changing into the primary participant since Larry Hen to position top-two in 5 consecutive seasons.
The Nuggets have been eradicated within the second spherical of the playoffs in back-to-back years since profitable their first NBA title 2023. After their Recreation 7 loss to the Thunder in Might, Jokic was blunt in concluding to reporters that Denver wasn’t not adequate to win the championship.
He additionally identified that different remaining playoff groups corresponding to Oklahoma Metropolis and Indiana had superior depth, prompting Kroenke to acknowledge the next week that he’d heard these feedback “loud and clear.”
Since then, the Nuggets have shaken up their roster by including 4 new gamers through trades and free company, highlighted by the swap of Michael Porter Jr. for Cam Johnson that was introduced Tuesday. Denver can be getting into subsequent season with a brand new head coach in David Adelman and a brand new front-office management duo of Ben Tenzer and Jon Wallace.
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