Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Age 2026: How Old Is SGA at 28?

Last updated: November 13, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is 28 years old in 2026. He was born Shaivonte Aician Gilgeous-Alexander on July 12, 1998, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and he turns 29 on July 12, 2027. At 28 he is a two-time reigning NBA Most Valuable Player, an NBA champion and Finals MVP, the owner of a four-year supermax extension reported at $285 million, and the face of the Oklahoma City Thunder — a player who went from not making his ninth-grade junior team to the best player in the league before his 27th birthday.

If you came for the essentials, you have them: 28 years old, 6 ft 6 in, 195 lb, a 6 ft 11 in wingspan, 530 career games, a 25.3-point career scoring average, and an estimated net worth of $90 million. The rest of this profile traces how a kid from Hamilton, Ontario, raised by an Olympian sprinter and coached by his father, became the fourth player in NBA history to win the MVP, the Finals MVP and the scoring title in the same season — the Kentucky year, the Clippers season, the Paul George trade, the climb to 30 points a night, the 2025 championship, the back-to-back MVPs, the 141-game scoring streak, and a 2026–27 season in which he is averaging 29.9 points a night.

Most pages about his age print the number and move on. This one answers the question properly: the exact birthdate with its sources, what he had done by each birthday, and why 28 is the age at which his career changed from great to historic. Every claim below carries its source and its date.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at 28: The Short Answer

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is 28 years old in 2026. He was born on July 12, 1998, in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in nearby Hamilton. He is in his ninth NBA season and his eighth with the Oklahoma City Thunder, where he wears No. 2 and plays point guard and shooting guard. His estimated net worth in 2026 is $90 million, inside a $50 million to $90 million range, built on $155.5 million in career NBA salary through the 2025–26 season and a four-year supermax extension reported at $285 million that does not start paying until 2027–28.

The case for him as the best player in the league is the résumé, not the age. He won the NBA championship in 2025 and was named Finals MVP. He won the league MVP award in 2025 and again in 2026, the 14th player in history to win it in back-to-back years. He led the NBA in scoring in 2025 at 32.7 points per game, the first Canadian ever to do it. He is a four-time All-Star and a four-time All-NBA First Team selection, and in 2026 he added the Clutch Player of the Year award and became the first guard in NBA history to average at least 30 points on at least 55 percent shooting in a season. Through 10 games of the 2026–27 season he is averaging 29.9 points, and he has topped 30 points in exactly half of them.

The age matters because of the timing. He won his first MVP at 26, his second at 27, and he signed the richest contract in NBA history by average annual value at 27 — a deal that pays him $63.5 million in its first season and nearly $79 million in its last. Players who win back-to-back MVPs before 28 are a short list, and every name on it is in the Hall of Fame conversation. The question now is not how old he is. It is how many more years the peak lasts.

How Old Is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? The Age at Every Milestone

Born July 12, 1998, Gilgeous-Alexander hit every marker early. He was 17 when he played for Canada at the 2016 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship and won a silver medal. He was 18 when he committed to Kentucky. He was 19 when he was drafted 11th overall in 2018. He was 20 when he recorded his first triple-double — 20 points, 10 assists and 20 rebounds against Minnesota in January 2020 — the youngest player ever to post a 20–20–10 line. He was 24 when he made his first All-Star team and his first All-NBA First Team in 2023. He was 26 when he won his first MVP, the scoring title, the championship and the Finals MVP in 2025. He was 27 when he won his second MVP and signed the $285 million supermax. He is 28 now, in the first season of the contract’s final cheap year — he earns $40,806,150 in 2026–27, only 39th in the league, because this is the last year of the old extension.

Toronto to Hamilton: Early Life and an Olympian Mother

Gilgeous-Alexander was born in Toronto and grew up in nearby Hamilton, Ontario. The athletic bloodline is real and it runs through his mother. Charmaine Gilgeous is a former professional track athlete who competed in the women’s 400 metres for Antigua and Barbuda at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. His father, Vaughn Alexander, also of Antiguan descent, played high school basketball and won a Toronto city championship while attending Georges Vanier Secondary School in the early 1990s, and he coached his son during his youth. His younger brother Thomasi played college basketball for the Evansville Purple Aces and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M, and his first cousin Nickeil Alexander-Walker is an NBA player for the Atlanta Hawks — the two lived together at their high school coach Zach Ferrell’s house and remain close.

He began high school in Hamilton at St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School before transferring to nearby Sir Allan MacNab Secondary School. In ninth grade he did not make the school’s junior team and played on the midget squad instead, where he was named team MVP and led St. Thomas More to the midget boys’ city championship. The cut is the founding story of his career: the player who now draws fouls at will and finishes through contact was once the kid who was not good enough for the junior team. He later moved to the United States and attended Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for his junior and senior years to face better competition, graduating in 2017. As a senior he averaged 18.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game, played in the 2016 Basketball Without Borders camp, and was a four-star recruit who first committed to Florida in November 2015 before decommitting in October 2016. His final five schools were Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse, Texas and UNLV. He chose Kentucky and signed his national letter of intent on November 14, 2016.

Kentucky: One Season, From the Bench to SEC Tournament MVP

Gilgeous-Alexander started the 2017–18 season with the Kentucky Wildcats as a reserve, sitting behind freshman point guard Quade Green, but still averaged over 30 minutes per game. When he first stepped on campus he had long hair. He cut it early in the season, and the haircut is now part of the lore — the moment, fans say, his progression from sixth man to starting point guard began. After a loss to UCLA he scored 24 points with five rebounds and four assists against Louisville on December 29, 2017, then led the team for the next two games with 21 points against Georgia and 18 against LSU. He became a starter alongside four other freshmen — Hamidou Diallo, Nick Richards, Kevin Knox II and P.J. Washington — and his scoring climbed to 12.9 points per game with 3.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists.

He saved his best for March. He earned SEC Tournament MVP honours and carried the momentum into the NCAA tournament, playing well against Davidson and Buffalo before Kentucky lost to Kansas State in the Sweet 16 — his final college moment was a missed three-point attempt at the buzzer. He finished his freshman season, and with it his college career, having played 37 games with 24 starts, averaging 14.4 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game while shooting 48.5 percent from the field. He was named second-team All-SEC and to the SEC All-Freshman Team, and on April 9, 2018, he declared for the NBA draft.

The 11th Pick and the Clippers Season

Gilgeous-Alexander was selected 11th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round of the 2018 NBA draft on June 21, 2018. On draft night he was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for the 12th overall pick, Miles Bridges, and two future second-round picks. In the Las Vegas Summer League he started all four of his games and averaged 19.0 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game, becoming the first player in Summer League history to average at least 19 points, four assists and two steals over a minimum of three appearances. He played all 82 games as a rookie, started 73, averaged 10.8 points, and was named to the All-Rookie Second Team. The Clippers reached the 2019 playoffs, where they were eliminated by the Golden State Warriors in six games in the first round — in Game 4, on April 21, he recorded a then-career-high 25 points in a 113–105 loss.

One season was all the Clippers got. On July 10, 2019, Los Angeles traded him along with Danilo Gallinari, five first-round draft picks and the rights to swap two other first-round picks to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for All-Star Paul George. It is now remembered as one of the most lopsided trades in modern NBA history, and it made Gilgeous-Alexander the centrepiece of a rebuild in a city that had just lost Russell Westbrook and Paul George in the same summer.

Oklahoma City: The Paul George Trade and the Climb to 30 Points

The rise was steady, then sudden. On December 22, 2019, he scored a then-career-high 32 points with five assists in a 118–112 win over his former team, the Clippers. On January 13, 2020, he recorded his first career triple-double with 20 points, 10 assists and a career-high 20 rebounds in a 117–104 win over Minnesota — the second player after Russell Westbrook to record a 20–20–10 statline in 30 years, and the youngest ever to do it. On December 26, 2020, he hit a game-winning jump shot in a 109–107 win over Charlotte. On February 24, 2021, he scored a then-career-high 42 points in a 102–99 win over San Antonio, but a month later his season ended after 35 games with a tear in his plantar fascia. On August 3, 2021, he and the Thunder agreed to a five-year, $172 million rookie extension. On December 18, 2021, he hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to lift the Thunder over his former team, the Clippers, 104–103. He finished the 2021–22 season with then-career highs of 24.5 points and 5.9 assists per game before an ankle injury ended his year in March.

The 2022–23 season was the breakout. He was named to his first All-Star Game as a reserve guard for the Western Conference on February 2, 2023, and finished the season averaging a then-career-high 31.4 points per game, fourth in the league, joining Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook as the only players in Thunder history to average at least 30 points in a season. He became the second guard in NBA history behind Michael Jordan to average at least 30 points, four rebounds, four assists, one steal and one block while shooting at least 50 percent from the field — and the youngest guard ever to do it, beating Jordan’s record. He finished fifth in MVP voting and was named to his first All-NBA First Team. The next season he went further: second in MVP voting, All-NBA First Team again, 30.1 points per game, and a Thunder team that won 57 games and entered the playoffs as the Western Conference’s top seed for the first time since 2013. His 48th 30-point game of the season passed Durant’s franchise record of 47. The Thunder swept New Orleans in the first round and lost to Dallas in six in the semifinals, despite his 36 points, eight assists, two blocks and zero turnovers in the 117–116 Game 6 loss.

2024–25: MVP, Scoring Title, Championship, Finals MVP

At 26, Gilgeous-Alexander put together one of the greatest single seasons in modern NBA history. He scored a then-career-high 45 points against his former team, the Clippers, on November 11, 2024, and tied it on December 26 against Indiana. In December he led the Thunder to a 12–1 record while averaging an NBA-best 33.3 points on 56.3 percent shooting, and he won Player of the Month in back-to-back months. On January 2, 2025, he led the Thunder to their 13th straight win, a franchise record; three days later, the 15th straight win broke the record set by the 1995–96 Seattle SuperSonics. On January 22 he scored a career-high 54 points against Utah. On February 5 he scored 50 points against Phoenix, becoming the ninth player in NBA history to score at least 50 points three times in a seven-game span. On March 3 he scored 51 against Houston, his fourth 50-point game of the season, tying Durant for second in franchise history and becoming just the 12th player ever with four or more 50-point games in a single season.

He finished the regular season as the first Canadian to lead the NBA in scoring and the third international player to do it, at 32.7 points per game, with the most 20-point games (75), 30-point games (49), 40-point games (13) and 50-point games (4) in the league. His streak of 72 consecutive games scoring at least 20 points was the longest since the 1960s, behind only Wilt Chamberlain (80) and Oscar Robertson (76). It was his third consecutive season averaging at least 30 points, a list occupied otherwise by Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Harden and Bob McAdoo. He was named NBA Most Valuable Player, the second Canadian to win it after Steve Nash, and he led the Thunder to the best record in franchise history at 68–14, tied for the fifth-best regular season record in NBA history.

The playoffs made it historic. The Thunder swept Memphis in the first round. In Game 7 of the semifinals against Denver he scored 35 points with zero turnovers, the sixth player in NBA playoff history to record 35 or more points with no turnovers in a Game 7. In the Western Conference Finals against Minnesota he scored 38 in Game 2 and 40 points with nine rebounds and 10 assists in Game 4, and after the series he was named the unanimous Western Conference Finals MVP, averaging 31.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 1.8 steals. In the Finals against Indiana he scored 38 points in Game 1, the third-most in a Finals debut behind Allen Iverson’s 48 and George Mikan’s 42, and his 72 combined points across the first two games set a record for the most by any player in their first two Finals games, passing Iverson’s 71. In Game 5 he recorded 31 points, 10 assists and four blocks, his 12th postseason game with at least 30 points and five assists, setting a new NBA record for the most such games in a single playoff run. The Thunder won Game 7, 103–91, and he was named Finals MVP, becoming the fourth player in NBA history — after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal — to win the MVP, the Finals MVP and the scoring title in the same season. He was also named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year and won the Best Male Athlete and Best NBA Player ESPY awards.

2025–26: The Second MVP and the 141-Game Streak

He agreed to a record four-year, $285 million extension with the Thunder on July 1, 2025, and then played like a man determined to justify it before a dollar of it arrived. In the season opener against Houston on October 21 he scored 35 points and made a pair of game-winning free throws in a 125–124 double-overtime victory. The next night, in a Finals rematch against Indiana, he recorded career highs of 55 points and 23 free throws made out of 26 attempted in a 141–135 double-overtime win — the first team in NBA history to play double overtime in the first two games of a season, and his 55 points the third-highest in franchise history since the relocation from Seattle. His combined 40 free throw attempts through the first two games set an NBA record, and his combined 90 points ranked fifth-most in NBA history through the first two games of a season, behind only Wilt Chamberlain, Anthony Davis and Michael Jordan.

The streaks piled up through the winter. On November 4 against the Clippers he recorded 30 points and 12 assists, his 80th consecutive game scoring 20 or more points, passing Oscar Robertson for the third-longest streak in NBA history, and the Thunder reached 8–0, a franchise record for a season-opening winning streak. On December 10 he led the Thunder to their 16th straight win and a 24–1 record, tying the best start in NBA history alongside the 2015–16 Golden State Warriors, with the largest scoring differential through 25 games ever at plus 17.5 points per game. On December 22 he recorded his 100th consecutive 20-point game, joining Wilt Chamberlain as the only players ever to do it. On January 7, 2026, he hit a mid-range jumper at the buzzer to force overtime against Utah and finished with 46 points in the win. On January 21 he recorded 40 points, seven rebounds and 11 assists on 16-of-19 shooting against Milwaukee, joining Chamberlain as the only players in history to record 40-plus points, 10-plus assists and five-plus rebounds on at least 80 percent shooting. On March 9 he recorded 35 points, nine rebounds and a career-high 15 assists and hit a game-winning three-pointer against Denver, and three days later he broke Chamberlain’s record for the most consecutive 20-point games. For the season he won his second consecutive MVP award, becoming the 14th player in history to win it in back-to-back years, and earned his first Clutch Player of the Year award. He also became the first guard in NBA history to average at least 30 points on at least 55 percent shooting in a season, finishing at 31.1 points on 55.3 percent.

The playoffs ended one step short of a repeat. The Thunder swept Phoenix in the first round — in Game 3 he put up a playoff career-high 42 points on 15-of-18 shooting — and swept the Lakers in the semifinals, his 26th 30-point playoff game in a Thunder uniform tying Russell Westbrook for second-most in franchise history. San Antonio eliminated them in seven games in the Western Conference Finals; in the deciding Game 7 he recorded a game-high 35 points and a game-high nine assists in a 111–103 loss.

The 2026–27 Season: 29.9 Points and a Streak That Ended

The 2026–27 season opened with the end of the streak. On October 22, 2026, against Denver, he scored 17 points on 6-of-19 shooting in a 96–84 win, and his record for the most consecutive 20-point games in NBA history ended at 141 games. The number is worth pausing on: 141 straight games with at least 20 points, a run that began in the 2024–25 season and carried through an MVP, a championship and a second MVP. It ended not with an injury or a benching but with a quiet 17-point night in a win, the kind of game that tells you how high the bar had been set.

Since then he has been exactly what the Thunder need. Through 10 games he is averaging 29.9 points, topping 30 points in exactly half of those contests. He dropped 43 points in the win over Cleveland, with four rebounds, eight assists, a steal, two blocks and four three-pointers. He scored 30 points in just three quarters to propel the Thunder to a 114–75 blowout win over Washington. He scored 26 points with eight rebounds against Portland in a loss. The context matters: the two-time reigning MVP is carrying a Thunder team that just lost two starters to season-ending injuries, per our October 31, 2026 net worth profile, and he is doing it in the last year of his old contract, paid like the 39th-highest player in the league while playing like the first.

The Money at 28: M Net Worth and the 5M Supermax

His net worth in 2026 is estimated at $90 million, per Celebrity Net Worth, inside a $50 million to $90 million range across outlets. The range exists because the money is unusually back-loaded. He has banked $155,523,850 in NBA salary and bonuses through the 2025–26 season, per Spotrac. He earns $40,806,150 in 2026–27, the final year of the five-year, $172 million extension he signed in August 2021. The four-year supermax he agreed on July 1, 2025, reported at $285 million, does not begin until 2027–28 — it runs through 2030–31 with a player option in the final year, starting at $63.525 million and rising to $78.771 million, the richest contract in NBA history by average annual value when it was signed. On Spotrac’s current cap projection the four years come to $273,302,400. Gross salary is not net worth, future money is not current money, and one October 2026 page notes honestly that no verified net worth figure has been published for him at all.

The full breakdown of his $90 million fortune — the rookie contract, the $172 million extension, the supermax, and the Converse and Nike deals — is covered in our net worth profile of Gilgeous-Alexander. The short version: he signed his first endorsement deal with Converse on July 8, 2020, re-signed on a lucrative multi-year contract and was named Creative Director of Converse Basketball, with creative input across all basketball product designs and his own signature sneaker line beginning with the SHAI 001, released September 4, 2025. On June 16, 2026, he left Converse to sign with its parent company, Nike. His off-court portfolio has since expanded into sports ownership: in October 2026 he joined Atlético de Madrid’s ownership group, and in February 2026 he joined the ownership group of the TD Coliseum in his hometown of Hamilton, where the atrium is named after his son Ares.

How He Plays at 28: The Slasher, the Free Throws, and the Critics

Listed at 6 ft 6 in and 195 lb with a 6 ft 11 in wingspan, Gilgeous-Alexander is a combo guard known for slashing through defences and scoring on all three levels. His body control, speed and embrace of defensive contact make him one of the best slashers in NBA history, with a 68 percent career field goal percentage within three feet of the basket. He is also a two-way player: he earned All-Defensive Team votes from 2023 to 2026 and placed seventh in the voting for the 2024 Defensive Player of the Year award. Former teammates Patrick Beverley and Chris Paul have praised his work ethic from the start of his career, Beverley comparing his mindset to Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, and Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault has praised his composure and selflessness.

The criticism follows him anyway, and it is about the free throws. He has faced heavy fan criticism on social media for his high free throw numbers and his tendency to embellish contact when driving. He led the NBA in total free throws made from the 2022–23 season to the 2024–25 season, though he has never led in free throws attempted. Former NBA player Richard Jefferson addressed the “free-throw merchant” narrative directly, relaying a conversation in which Gilgeous-Alexander pointed out that two years earlier he averaged almost 11 free throws a game and nobody cared, because the Thunder finished 10th and he was not sending anyone’s favourite player home. The point stands: the fouls were always there. The winning is what made people notice them.

Family and Personal Life: Marriage, a Son, and Hamilton

Gilgeous-Alexander married his high school sweetheart, Hailey Summers, on February 14, 2024. Their son, Ares, was born on April 25, 2024. He is considered a hometown hero in Hamilton. On August 7, 2025, the city held “Shai Rally Day” at Hamilton Stadium to celebrate his accomplishments: mayor Andrea Horwath presented him with the Key to the City, and the city announced commemorative “Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Way” street signs along Mohawk Road, the neighbourhood where he grew up. He was honoured during halftime of that day’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats game, where he wore a custom No. 2 Tiger-Cats jersey. In February 2026 he joined the ownership group of the TD Coliseum in his hometown following the arena’s renovation, and the atrium is named after his son Ares, with a mural planned.

Not everything in his personal life has gone smoothly. In May 2023 he purchased a lakefront property in Burlington, Ontario, that had previously been occupied by bankrupt cryptocurrency trader Aiden Pleterski. Within days of moving in, he and his partner vacated the residence because of security concerns related to Pleterski’s fraud and bankruptcy case, which had led to threats and repeated visits from investors seeking Pleterski. He filed a lawsuit to rescind the purchase, alleging the seller had failed to disclose the property’s connection to the trader and the associated safety risks. The court ruled in his favour, finding fraudulent misrepresentation on the seller’s part, awarded him damages for mortgage and insurance payments, and reversed the purchase; the seller’s appeal was denied. The case set a precedent in Ontario real estate law by expanding the scope of required property disclosures to include latent safety risks beyond the physical condition of the property. His home in Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, was burglarized on October 30, 2025, while he was at the Paycom Center playing the Washington Wizards.

Canada’s Athlete: World Cup Bronze and the Olympics

His national team career is the other half of his story. He represented Canada’s junior team at the 2016 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship, averaging 7.8 points, 4.0 rebounds and 5.4 assists as the team won silver. In May 2022 he was one of 14 players to agree to a three-year commitment to the national team, aiming to break a decades-long trend of failing to qualify for the Olympic basketball tournament. At the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup he was the central figure on the Canadian roster, leading the team to the bronze medal after defeating the United States in the third-place game — Canada’s first ever World Cup medal, and its first medal at a major global tournament since the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was named to the All-Tournament Team, and for his play in 2023 he received the Northern Star Award as Canada’s Athlete of the Year and the Lionel Conacher Award as the Canadian Press’ choice for Canadian Male Athlete of the Year, only the second basketball player to receive both honours after Steve Nash. He received both again in 2025.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Canada went unbeaten through the group stage — the “group of death” — and was surprisingly eliminated in the quarterfinals by hosts France. He was named to the tournament’s All-Second Team after averaging 21.0 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game. He is 28, and the next Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028 will arrive when he is 30 — the age at which, by his own trajectory, he should still be at his peak.

How SGA at 28 Compares With the League’s Other Stars

At 28, Gilgeous-Alexander sits between two generations. Above him is LeBron James, 41 in 2026, still playing at an age when most stars are long retired, and the standard every longevity conversation is measured against — SGA tied LeBron’s youngest-player records as a teenager and now chases his consistency records as a veteran. Beside him is Luka Doncic, the Lakers superstar of the same draft generation, the player SGA’s Thunder beat in the 2024 playoffs on the way to the top of the West. Below him is the next wave: Victor Wembanyama, 22 in 2026, the 7 ft 4 in French centre who is the league’s next face, and Anthony Edwards, the Timberwolves guard whose scoring explosions are the closest thing to SGA’s own. What separates Gilgeous-Alexander from all four is the combination: two MVPs, a championship and a Finals MVP before 28, with the richest contract in the game still to start paying. None of the others can match the full set at the same age.

The numbers back the comparison. His 25.3-point career scoring average over 530 games, his 26.2 points per game across 61 playoff games, and his 141-game streak of 20 or more points put him in company — Chamberlain, Robertson, Jordan — that no active player his age shares. The hole in the case is the same one every great player carries until it is filled: one championship, and a 2026 playoff run that ended in Game 7 of the conference finals. At 28, with the supermax starting next season and the 2028 Olympics on the horizon, the next four years will decide whether the peak we are watching becomes a dynasty or a brilliant prime.

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Sources & Reporting

This profile was researched on November 13, 2026, from live search results and the outlets named throughout: Wikipedia (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander page, crawled November 6, 2026) for the biography, career records, season-by-season statistics, national team career, endorsements, legal issues and personal life; Basketball-Reference for the birthdate and the direct answer that he is 28 years old; NBC Sports (November 7–11, 2026) for the 2026–27 season averages and recent games; Sportradar for the birthdate; our Guide Net Worth net worth profile of Gilgeous-Alexander (October 31, 2026) for the $90 million figure, the $50 million to $90 million range, the career earnings and the note that two Thunder starters were lost to season-ending injuries; Athlon Sports (October 25, 2026) for the net worth, career earnings and the Atlético de Madrid ownership; Celebrity Net Worth for the $90 million estimate and the supermax salary schedule; EssentiallySports (April 25, 2026) for the $90 million estimate and the contract breakdown; SurpriseSports (October 25, 2026) for the $50 million to $90 million range; imdevendra (October 26, 2026) for the honest note that no verified net worth figure has been published; Pro Football Network for the Spotrac supermax figure of $273,302,400 on current cap projections; and the Guide Net Worth profiles for LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Victor Wembanyama and Anthony Edwards for the peer comparison figures.

Where outlets disagree — on the net worth, and on the supermax total, which depends on future salary caps — this profile names the disagreement and attributes each figure to its outlet rather than picking a winner silently. No figure in this article comes from an anonymous “sources say” claim, and no fact has been added that the cited reporting does not support. Corrections policy: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.