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Oklahoma City Thunder center/forward Jaylin Williams is signing a three-year, $24 cardinal declaration hold with the franchise, sources told ESPN connected Sunday.
The Thunder declined Williams' $2.1 cardinal squad enactment and negotiated the caller rise with his agents, Marcus Monk and Sean Kennedy of Excel Sports.
Williams, 23, missed the archetypal 2 months of the play with a lingering hamstring strain and returned successful precocious December to a Thunder squad missing Chet Holmgren. The Thunder leaned connected Williams until Holmgren's instrumentality successful February.
Williams showed his worth arsenic a extent portion for the Thunder, adjacent successful the postseason, arsenic the Oklahoma City deployed the large antheral astir notably against the Denver Nuggets' vaunted frontcourt successful their second-round series.
Williams averaged 5.9 points and 5.6 rebounds portion shooting astir 40% from 3 this past season.
Drafted successful the 2nd circular by the Thunder successful 2022, Williams has averaged 5.1 points and 4.5 rebounds successful his career.
