The Atlanta Hawks have signed forward/center Onyeka Okongwu to a contract extension, the team announced on Monday.
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, it’s a four-year, $62 million contract extension. The two sides were able to reach an agreement on an extension of his rookie contract before the 6 p.m. deadline.
Last season, the 22-year-old notched career-highs of 9.9 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks. Okongwu’s 638 FG% marked the second-highest clip in a single season in franchise history and ranked sixth in the NBA during that season.
Okongwu has appeared in 178 games (28 starts) throughout his career, tallying 7.9 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks in 19.3 minutes (.653 FG%, .741 FT%). The four-year veteran rejected 107 shots, the 10th-most in the league during the 2022-23 campaign, with 71 blocks coming off the bench. His 71 bench rejections led all reserves and marked the most bench blocks in a single season by a Hawks reserve since the 1993-94 season (Andrew Lang: 87).
He has 200 total blocked shots in his career, tied for the 22nd-most blocks in the NBA over the last three seasons, with 143 coming off the bench. His 143 blocks as a reserve marks the fifth-most rejections by a Hawks reserve in franchise history and the fourth-most by a bench player in the NBA since the 2020-21 season.
Drafted by Atlanta with the sixth overall pick of the 2020 NBA Draft, Okongwu has appeared in 29 career playoff contests, averaging 3.8 points and 3.9 rebounds in 14.0 minutes. In a Game 5 win at Boston in the first round of the 2023 Eastern Conference Playoffs, Okongwu recorded both his 100th career playoff point and 100th career playoff rebound, becoming the youngest player in Hawks playoff history to tally 100-or-more points and 100-or-more rebounds (22 years, 135 days).
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