New Orleans Pelicans, CJ McCollum comply with 2-year, $64 million extension

New Orleans Pelicans star CJ McCollum has agreed on a two-year, $64 million contract extension that’ll take him by means of the 2025-2026 season, his agent Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports activities advised ESPN on Saturday.

McCollum’s new deal ties him to New Orleans for 4 years and $133 million, aligning him on long-term offers with franchise cornerstones Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson.

McCollum’s extension completes an offseason precedence for New Orleans’ senior vice chairman of basketball operations David Griffin and basic supervisor Trajan Langdon, who’ve tremendously valued McCollum’s manufacturing and his management since his arrival in a February deal from the Portland Path Blazers.

McCollum had an immense affect on the franchise’s play-in match berth and development into the Western Convention playoffs. He arrived in a February eighth commerce with the Blazers after reaching the playoffs in eight consecutive seasons as a part of a backcourt with Damian Lillard.

McCollum, who averaged 24.3 factors after becoming a member of the Pelicans, is one in every of six gamers to common 20-plus factors in every of the final seven seasons, together with Anthony Davis, DeMar DeRozan, LeBron James, Paul George and James Harden, in line with ESPN Stats and Data. That was amongst gamers who performed a minimal of 30 video games.

McCollum is at the moment the president of the Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation.