Towns, Wolves agree to 4-year, $224M supermax

Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Cities has agreed on a four-year, $224 million supermax extension, his agent, Jessica Holtz of CAA Basketball informed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The deal begins with the 2024-25 season and delivers Cities’ complete contract worth to 6 years and $295 million.

Cities, 26, the No. 1 general choose by Minnesota in 2015, has turn into one of many league’s most dominant offensive huge males throughout his eight years in Minnesota. He averaged 24.2 factors and 9.6 rebounds per sport this previous season whereas taking pictures over 50% from the sector, 40% from 3-point vary and 80% from the foul line.

That, coupled with Minnesota making the playoffs for the second time in Cities’ NBA profession, helped the 6-foot-11 huge man earn an All-NBA third-team choice, which made him eligible to safe this supermax extension.

The choice to increase Cities turned a public present of help to the group’s star from its new president of basketball operations, Tim Connelly, whom Minnesota employed away from the Denver Nuggets final month.

Now that Cities is within the fold till 2028, Connelly and coach Chris Finch can proceed to assemble the roster across the group’s two younger tentpole stars: Cities and second-year guard Anthony Edwards.

Their mixed progress this season helped energy Minnesota to the seventh seed within the West and a first-round matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies after the group’s victory in a play-in sport versus the LA Clippers. The Timberwolves misplaced to Memphis in a hard-fought six-game collection.

Now, Minnesota heads into this free-agency interval with actual momentum behind it due to the presence of Cities and Edwards on the roster, Connelly as the brand new head of basketball operations, and new house owners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez, because the Timberwolves proceed to flesh out what the following model of their group seems to be like.

Up to now this offseason, Minnesota has agreed to a two-year, $16 million extension with ahead Taurean Prince, holding him with the Timberwolves transferring ahead. In addition they have agreed to a two-year, $18 million take care of small ahead Kyle Anderson, his brokers Thad Foucher and Joe Smith of Wasserman Basketball informed Wojnarowski.