Jaylen Brown will be the highest paid basketball player of all time. The forward signed a supermax contract (the maximum that can be offered) with the Boston Celtics for five seasons, for which he will receive a total of $303,734,893, The Sporting News confirmed on its website.
Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics have agreed on a five-year supermax extension worth up to $304 million, the richest contract in NBA history, his agent Jason Glushon of @GlushonSM tells ESPN. pic.twitter.com/oYmD6XDy9D
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Both parties finalized the agreement on Sunday night. He surpasses the one signed by Serbian center Nikola Jokic with the Denver Nuggets, which was for $270 million over five seasons.
The Celtics star, who averaged a career-best scoring mark last season (26.6 points per game) and career-best shooting percentage (49%), will earn $52,368,085 for the first season; $56,557,532 for the second; $60,746,979 for the third; $64,936,425 for the fourth; and $69,125,872 in the final year of his current extension.
