Adrian WojnarowskiSenior NBA Insider8. Oct 2023 1:10pm ET1 minute read
Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard has agreed to a four-year, $30 million contract extension, his agents Austin Brown, Max Saidman and Mitch Nathan of CAA Sports told ESPN on Sunday.
The deal, which is fully guaranteed, comes with the expectation that Pritchard will play a more prominent role off the Celtics’ bench this season.
Pritchard is the seventh player in the 2020 draft class to agree to a rookie-scale contract extension. The others are Anthony Edwards of Minnesota, LaMelo Ball of Charlotte, Tyrese Haliburton of Indiana, Isaiah Stewart of Detroit, Desmond Bane of Memphis and Devin Vassell of San Antonio.
The deadline to sign an extension is October 23rd.
The 25-year-old Pritchard played a career-low 13.4 minutes per game last season, but those minutes are expected to increase again this year. Pritchard, the 26th pick in 2020 out of Oregon, averaged 19.2 minutes and 14.1 minutes, respectively, in his first two NBA seasons.
According to Second Spectrum, Pritchard has shot 42.6% on catch-and-shoot 3-pointers since entering the NBA in 2020. That puts him among the top 15 players in the league with over 300 attempts in that span. In the final game of the 2022-23 regular season, Pritchard made and assisted on 17 three-point shots – more than any player has ever made in an NBA game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, he joins James Harden as the only players with a triple-double and nine 3-pointers in a game in NBA history. Pritchard had 30 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in the final game of last regular season.