Jazz star Donovan Mitchell will sign a maximum rookie-scale extension, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Mitchell will be guaranteed 25 percent of the salary cap, which would make the total value of the deal around $163M over five years. That figure could rise to 30 percent if he meets All-NBA criteria for the upcoming season, which would put the contract in the neighborhood of $195M. That projects an annual 3 percent increase in the cap, so the actual value could vary.
Mitchell has become a star in Utah during his three NBA seasons and is coming off his first All-Star appearance. He averaged a career-best 24.0 points per game last season and followed that with a historic playoff performance, scoring 36.3 percent in the seven-game loss to the Nuggets.
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