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Toronto Raptors halfway Jakob Poeltl has agreed connected a four-year, $104 cardinal declaration hold with the franchise done 2029-30, sources told ESPN.
Poeltl volition prime up his 2026-27 subordinate enactment astatine $19.5M and adhd 3 further years to his deal.
The Raptors and Poeltl's agents, Michael Tellem and Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports, discussed respective frameworks of a woody specified arsenic opt-out-and-extend -- but the sides landed connected an opt-in-and-extend, giving the squad flexibility successful the adjacent 2 seasons.
Poeltl averaged career-highs successful minutes (29.6), points (14.5) and rebounds (9.6) this past season, shooting 63% from the tract -- 5th-best successful the NBA among qualified players. He is 1 of conscionable 3 players leaguewide to sprout shoot 60% oregon amended from the tract successful each of the past 8 seasons, on with Minnesota's Rudy Gobert and Denver's DeAndre Jordan. He's besides changeable 64% from the level successful his 5 seasons with the Raptors, the champion people successful franchise past among players with 500+ shots, ranking successful the top-10 successful tract extremity percent connected floaters (min. 100 FGA) and tract extremity percent connected layups/dunks (min. 300 FGA) this past play per GeniusIQ, and top-10 successful surface assists per crippled and points per crippled from surface assists past season.
The 29-year aged large antheral has 4 vocation 30-point games, 2 of which came this past season.
Poeltl besides spent four-plus seasons with San Antonio wherever helium averaged 8.8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists successful 326 games for the Spurs.
Toronto besides signed free-agent F/C Sandro Mamukelashvili to a two-year, $5.5 cardinal woody with the 2nd twelvemonth being a subordinate option, sources archer ESPN.
George Roussakis and Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports negotiated the caller deal.
