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Work in Progress- WIParound; Chet Holmgren signs max deal with Thunder

The Ticket Top 10

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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July 9th, 2025

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0:00.0

They do the whiff around.

0:03.4

Everybody's doing the whiff around.

0:07.4

Let's start with the big NBA news of the day.

0:14.1

As we have been wondering, since they won the title a couple of weeks ago, what the future of the Oklahoma City Thunder would look like.

0:22.2

And that became a little more clear today as they have agreed to a fully guaranteed

0:28.2

five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could reach $250 million with their young

0:36.8

stud big man, Chet Holmgren.

0:40.0

That's a big turnaround from after like game four of the finals, people thought it's kind of trash.

0:46.3

Can't do anything.

0:47.2

They're attacking him every play.

0:49.0

Yeah.

0:49.6

He's not physical enough to hang with Miles Turner or any kind of real big and then yeah how about we just

0:56.0

hand them potentially $250 million it's a nice little trick where I guess you feel confident

1:04.0

as an organization that you've hit on Holmgren you've hit on J-W you've hit on SGA they've got a core you look at the rest of the guys on

1:14.9

their bench um for the most part most of the guys and you say we can probably just draft and

1:21.4

develop guys about this good so whenever they have to reshuffle the deck on some of those

1:27.3

lesser stars those third tier guys they'll all just be gone, I would imagine.

1:32.5

And they'll just redraft and continue with this core.

1:36.1

It just didn't make sense to me when people were wondering that what are they going to do with Chet?

1:41.3

Of course they're going to sign him.

1:43.0

The upside for Chet Holmgren is

1:45.2

massive moving forward, especially on a team like that. There's no way I would have let him go.

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