{"id":2069,"date":"2016-10-31T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2016-10-31T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:27:29","slug":"thunder-sign-steven-adams-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/10\/31\/thunder-sign-steven-adams-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Oklahoma City Thunder Sign Steven Adams to Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Oklahoma City Thunder<\/b>\u00a0have several key players hitting the free-agent market this summer. However, they have now essentially reached a\u00a0deal to keep one their key free agents, center\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/adamsst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Adams<\/a><\/b>. The Thunder and Adams agreed on a four-year, $100 million extension on Monday, according to <strong>Adrian Wojnarowski\u00a0<\/strong>of\u00a0<strong>The Vertical<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oklahoma City and center Steven Adams are finalizing a four-year, $100M extension, league sources tell @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/793188442079461378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Thunder\u00a0Sign Steven Adams to Contract Extension<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Wojnarowski\u00a0reported earlier on Monday afternoon that the Thunder and Adams were gaining traction in extension talks:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oklahoma City and center Steven Adams making significant progress on a 4-year, $100M contract extension, league sources tell @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/793148676277432324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now that the deal is official, it will make Adams the second-highest paid player on the Thunder\u00a0in the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>With the departure of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Durant<\/a><\/b> via free agency, the Thunder are prioritizing keeping their core\u00a0together. Adams is a big part of that core. He is a defensive anchor in the paint; he can rebound the basketball, is a shot blocker, and is one of\u00a0the best interior defenders in the league. However, Adams&#8217; numbers don&#8217;t necessarily back up the hefty deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.espn.com\/nba\/playerstats?playerId=2991235\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adams has never averaged more than 8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game in a season<\/a>, but his\u00a0impact on this team will be greater going forward. With Durant gone and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/westbru01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russell Westbrook<\/a><\/b> back for at least two more years, Adams is arguably the Thunder&#8217;s second-most valuable player. Albeit the hefty sum, this deal\u00a0will keep the defensive-minded Adams in Oklahoma City for the long run.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/612324722\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 70.202020% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/612324722?et=bjH_6iDRSlVaw4UjLUH5Lw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=BsCBd4uipBlArx4vrs6z9NFJpRxYCxK25moQjQFNL30=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"417\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With multiple players hitting the free agent market this summer, the Oklahoma City Thunder sign Steven Adams to a contract extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,62,3],"tags":[65,96,202,54,53,543],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thunder","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-news","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-steven-adams"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}