{"id":83928,"date":"2024-07-01T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=83928"},"modified":"2024-07-01T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:28:58","slug":"thunder-re-sign-two-key-reserves-to-multi-year-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/07\/01\/thunder-re-sign-two-key-reserves-to-multi-year-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Re-Sign 2 Key Reserves To Multi-Year Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/06\/28\/why-oklahoma-city-thunder-won-day-2-2024-nba-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> were the surprise top seed in the Western Conference in 2023-24. While they fell in the second round to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/07\/01\/mavericks-sign-27-million-impact-player\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> in six games, the team\u2019s youth leads many to believe they can take the next step soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gilgesh01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> leads the team, but Oklahoma City has numerous pieces that can bring it on both ends. Shams Charania of The Athletic reports that two of those pieces, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/joeis01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaiah Joe<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wiggiaa01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Wiggins<\/a>, have re-signed.<\/p>\n<h2>Thunder Re-Sign 2 Key Reserves To Multi-Year Deals<\/h2>\n<h3>Isaiah Joe: From Being Waived To Being Paid<\/h3>\n<p>Just before the 2022-23 season was to begin, the Philadelphia 76ers <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/76ers\/news\/sixers-waive-young-sharpshooter-isaiah-joe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waived<\/a> Joe. He signed with the Thunder a few days later, and after two seasons, he is being rewarded in free agency. Charania reports that Joe\u2019s contract will be a four-year deal worth $48 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Free agent sharpshooter Isaiah Joe has agreed to a new four-year, $48 million deal to return to the Oklahoma City Thunder, sources tell <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheAthletic<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Stadium<\/a>. Joe joined OKC after being waived by the 76ers in 2022, and now earns a long-term contract. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxpE7H5JgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/zxpE7H5JgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1807762348611960966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City had an extremely friendly $2.165 million 2024-25 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/fantasy\/basketball\/news\/isaiah-joe-team-option-declined\/#:~:text=The%20Thunder%20declined%20Joe&#039;s,Charania%20of%20The%20Athletic%20reports.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">team option<\/a> for Joe that they declined to sign him to a multi-year deal instead. After not receiving much playing time with the 76ers in his first two seasons, Joe became a reliable reserve for the Thunder. In 2023-24, the 24-year-old guard posted averages of 8.2 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 1.3 assists. In both Oklahoma City seasons, he connected on more than 40% of his threes (41.6% in 2023-24, 40.9% in 2022-23).<\/p>\n<h3>Aaron Wiggins: From Being A Late Draft Pick To Being Paid<\/h3>\n<p>Much like Joe, the Thunder owned a very cheap team option on Wiggins for the 2024-25 season at just $1.989 million. Also, like Joe, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/nba\/news\/455802\/aaron-wiggins-has-team-option-declined.php\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oklahoma City declined<\/a> to lock up Wiggins for numerous years. Charania is reporting Wiggins\u2019 deal to be for five years and $47 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: The Oklahoma City Thunder and free agent F Aaron Wiggins have agreed to a new five-year, $47 million deal. After OKC declined his $2M team option, Wiggins receives $45M in new money, with a significant raise next season. Thunder lock in a key rotation piece long-term. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r5zmEDPX2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/r5zmEDPX2M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1807761084926853364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2021 NBA Draft, Wiggins was among the last players selected. Oklahoma City took him with the 55th overall pick. While the Thunder weren\u2019t a good team in his rookie season, Wiggins still outperformed his draft position and started 35 of his 50 appearances in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>Now 25 years old, the six-foot-six Wiggins played in 78 games for the Thunder in 2023-24. His per-game averages comprised 6.9 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.1 assists. While he didn\u2019t attempt three-pointers at a high volume, he was extremely accurate. Last season, he made 62 of his 126 attempts from beyond the arc (49.2%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder were the surprise top seed in the Western Conference in 2023-24. While they fell in the second round to the Dallas Mavericks in six games, the team\u2019s youth leads many to believe they can take the next step soon. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads the team, but Oklahoma City has numerous pieces that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":83951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[1608,62,3,22],"tags":[49059,2525,5000],"class_list":["post-83928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","category-thunder","tag-2024-nba-free-agents","tag-aaron-wiggins","tag-isaiah-joe"],"modified_by":"Kayla Fonte","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83928","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\/5060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}