{"id":13333,"date":"2025-06-29T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/okc-thunder-locks-up-jaylin-williams-and-ajay-mitchell-with-new-deals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:04:10","slug":"okc-thunder-locks-up-jaylin-williams-and-ajay-mitchell-with-new-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/okc-thunder-locks-up-jaylin-williams-and-ajay-mitchell-with-new-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC Thunder locks up Jaylin Williams and Ajay Mitchell with new deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thunder Secures the Future with Williams and Mitchell<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> have reached three-year agreements with power forward Jaylin Williams and point guard Ajay Mitchell, according to sources. This move demonstrates the team&#8217;s confidence in these young talents.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder opted not to exercise Williams&#8217; $2.1 million team option, instead opting to negotiate a new $24 million deal with his agents, Marcus Monk and Sean Kennedy of Excel Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell&#8217;s contract, for his part, amounts to almost 9 million dollars, after Oklahoma City also declined its team option for next season. Life Sports Agency CEO Todd Ramasar and agent Mike Simonetta negotiated the new deal for Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Thunder announced Williams&#8217; multi-year extension on Sunday, the specific terms of the agreement were not revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 23, missed the first two months of the season due to a hamstring injury, returning in late December to a Thunder team that lacked <a href=\"\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433255\/chet-holmgren\">Chet Holmgren<\/a>. Williams proved to be a key player until Holmgren&#8217;s return in February.<\/p>\n<p>Williams proved his worth as a fundamental piece for the Thunder, even in the postseason, where Oklahoma City strategically used him against the feared frontcourt of the <a href=\"\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> in the second-round series.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous season, Williams averaged 5.9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, with a shooting accuracy close to 40% in three-point shots.<\/p>\n<p>Selected in the second round of the 2022 draft by the Thunder, Williams has averaged 5.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, also 23 years old, was selected in the second round last season and participated in 36 games with the current champions. He averaged 6.5 points per game, with 50% field goal shooting and 38% three-point shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunder Secures the Future with Williams and Mitchell The Oklahoma City Thunder have reached three-year agreements with power forward Jaylin Williams and point guard Ajay Mitchell, according to sources. This move demonstrates the team&#8217;s confidence in these young talents. The Thunder opted not to exercise Williams&#8217; $2.1 million team option, instead opting to negotiate a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5010,2803,5011,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-13333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ajay-mitchell","9":"tag-contracts","10":"tag-jaylin-williams","11":"tag-thunder"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}