It is said that the Thunder completed three maximum salary renewals this summer, with a total amount of over $800 million

This year, the Thunder finally won the NBA championship as they wished. Since the team traded Paul George to get Alexander, the Thunder management has already begun to make arrangements. They chose to use mature veterans in the team to continuously trade and get many draft picks, thus making the team younger and gradually gaining the strength to compete for the championship.

In this process, in addition to Alexander, the team won Dort as the league defense player in the undraft, and in the draft, they also received rotations from Chett, Jaylen Williams, and Carson Wallace. In the free agent trading and signing, they won high-quality team players such as Caruso and Harten.

Among these players, Chet and Jewish, who were selected in the first round of the 22nd, have grown into the second and third cores of the team. This year, they have completed their third season journey, so they are qualified to start early renewal with the team. As Shams just reported, Jaylen Williams has reached a five-year contract with the team of up to $287 million. The Thunder have given three maximum salaries this summer.

First, they renewed the contract with last season's regular season MVP and finals MVP Alexander with a four-year contract of $285 million. Then he renewed the contract with 22-year No. 2 Chett with a five-year contract of $250 million. Today, with another 5-year, $287 million, successfully retained Jaylen Williams, who was ranked 12th in the first round in 22 years. The total amount of contract renewal for these three people alone reached US$822 million.

In fact, when the team completed the contract renewal with Alexander and Chett, a large part of the voices said that the Thunder would no longer give Jaylen Williams a maximum salary contract. Because you have to sign these three people at the same time with a maximum salary, when the new contract between Jewish and Chett began to be executed in the 26-27 season, the total salary of these three people may account for 90% of the salary space. For the Thunder, paying luxury tax is basically a foregone conclusion.

At the same time, Jaylen Williams' role is also the most likely to be replaced among the three. On the offensive end, Alexander can be the team's arrowhead. Even without Jayway, Alexander's offensive firepower is enough to make his opponent feel a headache. On the defensive end, Chett is the first player in the overall defense in the 24-25 playoffs, so he can also share some of Jaylen Williams's tasks on the defensive end.

In the 24-25 regular season, Jewe averaged 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of 48%, and a three-point shooting percentage of 37%. In the playoffs, he averaged 21.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game, which is not much different from the regular season, but his shooting percentage has dropped to 45%, and his three-point shooting percentage has dropped to 30%. However, given the comprehensive attributes of Jiewei and the Thunder's final championship bonus, it is understandable that he received such a maximum salary.

vs. Thunders risked serious salary pressure, and they were even less willing to let James Harden go again because of giving up renewing Jaylen Williams. In the 11-12 season, James Harden also had his third season in his career and had just won the Sixth Man of the Year, helping the team to the finals, averaging 16.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.5 steals per game. During the offseason negotiations with the Thunder, the Thunder insisted that they were unwilling to give Harden a four-year, $60 million contract and eventually traded it to the Rockets.

In the first year of the Rockets, James Harden established his core position with an outstanding performance of 26.3 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 2 steals per game. On the other hand, after the Thunder lacked Harden, although Westbrook and Durant were still led by the team, they have never entered the finals again.

So after the team won the NBA championship this time, it is undoubtedly a very correct approach to lock in three core players with the fastest speed. Even if they do not renew their contracts, after Chet and Jewe will expire next year, other teams in the market will still give maximum salary contracts. So it is better to lock in the core lineup in advance to retain the possibility of winning the championship to the maximum extent. Even if the future cannot withstand the pressure of luxury tax, these three can bring huge future wealth to Thunder. Do you think the Thunder should renew the contract with Javi with a maximum salary?