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NBA: Contract extended: Jakob Pöltl earns so much money

Proof of confidence for Jakob Pöltl in the Toronto Raptors.The NBA team uses a contract option to bind the Viennese prematurely until 2019.

The 22-year-old’s original contract would have expired in 2018.The Austrian’s working paper contains a second clause which allows the Raptors to extend Pöltl’s contract for another year.

Pöltl will receive €2.825 million for the coming season, which will start Toronto on Thursday with a home game against the Chicago Bulls.dollars (2.39 millionEuro).The salary for 2018/19 is expected to amount to an estimateddollars a little more than that.

At the same time as the 22-year-old, the Raptors also announced on Monday the renewals of their team mates Pascal Siakam and Delon Wright’s contracts for one year each until 2019.According to the collective agreement, the club had a minimum age of 31.October time to draw the options on the trio.

Video: Great Dunk by Jakob Pöltl

In his first NBA season, Pöltl had played 54 out of 82 matches of the basic round.The center achieved an average of 3.1 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.For his second year in the world’s strongest basketball league, the 2.13-metre man is hoping for more action minutes and an increase.

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