{"id":8125,"date":"2017-07-05T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8125"},"modified":"2017-07-06T20:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T00:01:45","slug":"andre-roberson-agrees-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/07\/05\/andre-roberson-agrees-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Andre Roberson Agrees to Re-Sign With Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed to re-sign restricted free agent swingman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/roberan03.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andre Roberson<\/a><\/strong> to a contract worth $30 million over three years.\u00a0The contract cannot officially be signed until the end of the NBA\u2019s moratorium period on July 6th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Wojnarowski<\/strong> of ESPN broke the news Wednesday night:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andre Roberson has agreed to a new three-year, $30M deal with Oklahoma City, league sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/882790853172920321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Andre Roberson Agrees to Three-Year Contract With Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Roberson&#8217;s new contract will take him through the end of the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>Roberson averaged a meager 6.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game on 46 percent shooting from the field last season. However, besides his shooting percentages, Roberson&#8217;s stats have gotten better each year he has been in the league. But the four-year swingman from Colorado is not known for his offense; rather, he is known for his shutdown defense. Roberson made the NBA All-Defensive Second Team\u00a0in the\u00a02016-17 campaign, his first accolade since joining the league.<\/p>\n<p>At only 25 years old, Roberson has yet to reach his peak and is already one of the league&#8217;s best defenders. However, his offensive game is a major weakness. Roberson shot just 25 percent from beyond the arc last year, his worst mark since his rookie season. He also made just 42.3 percent of his free throws, a career-low mark, and an abysmal one for a perimeter player (or any player, for that matter). Roberson will look to improve his shot this off-season for the Thunder in hopes of becoming a two-way threat.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming season will mark Roberson&#8217;s fifth year in the league, with the first four coming in Oklahoma City. The Thunder selected Roberson with the 26th overall pick of the 2013 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the LWOS 2017 NBA Free Agency Tracker for all of your NBA free agency coverage, and be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LastWordHoops?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow @LastWordHoops<\/a> on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest NBA news.<\/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.ca\/detail\/613077320\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 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\/613077320?et=EeNt86bBSVRdwJndNt7hTg&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=EKtMdS2wyJZFcw1AWgJvUj71lJ-x76zneVU-fAWbloM=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, free agent small forward Andre Roberson agrees to a contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder worth $30 million over three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":8262,"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":[1109,65,96,297,202,54],"class_list":["post-8125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thunder","category-nba","category-news","tag-andre-roberson","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-news","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125","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\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}