Keegan Murray got his deal.
The Sacramento Kings reached a five-year, $140 million rookie extension with Murray on Wednesday afternoon, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Murray, who turns 25 on Aug. 19, was eligible for a rookie scale extension as a 2022 rookie and first-round pick with an Oct. 21 deadline to agree to a long-term extension with the Kings. He was under contract through the 2025-26 season on a club option for $11.1 million.
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Sacramento’s 2022 first-round pick (No. 4 overall) out of Iowa, Murray has averaged 13.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 37% on his 3-point attempts. That performance projected him for an extension in line with the four-year, $112 million deal Trey Murphy III received from the New Orleans Pelicans or the five-year, $185 million package Alperen Şengün signed with the Houston Rockets.
Over his three seasons, the Kings have declined from the third-best team in the Western Conference to a ninth-place finish in the past two years. But that qualified Sacramento for the play-in tournament. In 2024, the Kings defeated the Golden State Warriors before being eliminated by the New Orleans Pelicans. Last season, Sacramento lost to the Dallas Mavericks.
Murray has never been more than the Kings’ fourth-leading scorer. Yet to be fair, he was playing alongside high-volume scorers like DeMar DeRozan (22.2 ppg) and Zach LaVine (22.4 ppg) last season and that will continue. As a rookie, he set an NBA record for 3-pointers made by a rookie with 206, shooting 41%. Perhaps that was an outlier and his numbers were bound to decline.
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However, he has also been the team’s second-leading rebounder behind Domantas Sabonis. And he’s been durable, averaging 78 games per season. Perhaps most importantly, Murray has improved defensively as his career has progressed. He’s been especially effective in isolation situations, often against some of the NBA’s top scorers including Stephen Curry, Luka Dončić and Donovan Mitchell.
This post will be updated with more information shortly.
