Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA Insider
Detroit Pistons ahead/middle Isaiah Stewart has correct on a four-year, $64 million rookie guarantee extension, his agent Drew Improper of Roc Family Sports activities informed ESPN on Monday.
Pistons normal supervisor Troy Weaver and Improper finished negotiations at the trade in at summer season league in Las Vegas, resources mentioned. That is the Pistons’ first rookie extension since proprietor Tom Gores bought the franchise in 2011 — and the primary for the group since Jason Maxiell in 2008.
Stewart, 22, has emerged as an integral a part of the Pistons’ rebuild. Stewart averaged 11.3 issues and eight.1 rebounds, forming 47 of fifty video games earlier than struggling a season-ending left shoulder shock in early March. Stewart had a career-high 13 double-doubles terminating season, in step with ESPN Stats & Data analysis.
The Pistons did re-sign middle Andre Drummond on five-year, $127 million trade in in 2016, however that used to be as a limited sovereign agent — now not on a rookie extension.
Stewart is the primary non-max guarantee extension within the Elegance of 2020. Up to now, Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards, Charlotte LaMelo Ball, Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton, and Memphis’ Desmond Bane have correct to max extensions.
The Pistons drafted Stewart Refuse. 16 general out of Washington, the place he had performed for Huskies schoolmaster Mike Hopkins.
