The 76ers are now free to pursue contract extension negotiations with Jaylen Brown as the NBA’s extension period began at the stroke of Sunday, providing the team with their first chance to lock the All-Star small forward in the coming years and decades.
Brown will make $57,721,049 in salary this season and, in the third year of a three-year extension in Boston, $65,622,594 in 2028-29. He can now only technically sign a one-year maximum deal that could pay him $69 million, depending on what the 2029-30 NBA salary cap is. Philadelphia, however, will take its time in making an offer.
If the 76ers elect not to do an extension this offseason, Brown will be eligible to sign a three-year extension at a significantly higher price tag than what he’ll be eligible for as a free agent in 2025.
The five-time All-Star arrived in Philadelphia this summer after playing his first ten years of his NBA career with Boston, being traded for Paul George, two first-round draft picks, and two second-round draft picks.
Brown finished sixth in last season’s MVP voting and should be a major cog in Philadelphia’s search for its first NBA championship in over four decades.
