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Orlando Magic prima Paolo Banchero has agreed to a five-year, $239 cardinal maximum rookie declaration hold that could scope $287 million, Mike Miller of LIFT Sports Management told ESPN.
Miller said Banchero's caller woody includes triggers to elevate the basal wage to the supermaximum should the Magic franchise cornerstone marque either All-NBA team, either All-Defensive squad oregon gain MVP oregon Defensive Player of the Year honors adjacent season.
The woody besides has a subordinate enactment for Banchero successful 2030-31 -- the archetypal clip a rookie max hold has had a subordinate enactment since 2021, erstwhile Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks) and Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks) completed their rookie max contracts.
The Magic present person their halfway of Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs nether declaration for the adjacent 5 years arsenic good arsenic the newly acquired Desmond Bane nether declaration done the 2028-29 season.
Orlando's enactment of Banchero with the No. 1 wide prime successful the 2022 draught triggered a turnaround for the franchise that has led to 2 postseason appearances implicit the past 2 seasons.
Despite an oblique wounded that sidelined him for 34 games implicit the archetypal 2 months, Banchero went connected to person a vocation twelvemonth this past season, mounting caller highs with 25.9 points and 7.5 rebounds per crippled portion besides averaging 4.8 assists.
He's conscionable the eighth subordinate successful NBA past to mean 25, 7 and 4 astatine property 22 oregon younger. And helium joined Tracy McGrady and Shaquille O'Neal arsenic the lone Magic players to mean much than 25 points per crippled successful a season.
Banchero took his crippled to different level aft the All-Star break, averaging 29.0 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists. In the playoffs, helium enactment unneurotic 7 consecutive games with 25 points oregon much spanning the 2024 and 2025 seasons, tying the longest streak successful Magic history.
His 4,432 vocation points is 3rd successful Magic history, down lone O'Neal and Penny Hardaway.
The 2022-23 NBA Rookie of the Year, who earned his archetypal All-Star enactment successful 2024, has averaged 22.4 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.6 assists successful his 3 NBA seasons.
