Hornets’ Terry Rozier agrees to four-year max contract extension, per report

Terry Rozier will likely be a member of the Charlotte Hornets for the foreseeable future, as he has agreed to a four-year, $97 million max contract extension with the staff, in accordance with Shams Charania of The Athletic. Rozier’s new extension retains him below staff management although the 2025-26 NBA season. 

The previous Louisville product had only one 12 months remaining on his earlier contract and thus would have turn into an unrestricted free agent subsequent offseason. As an alternative, the Hornets determined to lock him up long-term. The group clearly views him as a central piece of the staff shifting ahead. As a guard able to enjoying each off-ball and with the ball in his arms, Rozier is a stable match alongside reigning Rookie of the Yr LaMelo Ball. 

Rozier has performed the final two seasons in Charlotte after enjoying the primary 4 years of his profession with the Boston Celtics. He has began in all 132 video games that he has performed for the Hornets during the last two seasons, and final season he averaged profession highs in factors (20.4), assists (4.2), steals (1.3) and minutes (34.5) per sport. He additionally shot a profession excessive 45 p.c from the ground. Shifting ahead, Rozier is raring to construct off of the momentum that he established in Charlotte final season.

“I had numerous enjoyable,” Rozier stated of final season throughout exit interviews, per the Hornets. “It has been an extended season and totally different than the same old. There’s numerous promising issues that we have proven and seen. We’re solely trying to develop and get higher as a complete. Ending the season how we ended it with six straight losses isn’t enjoyable, however we’re constructing one thing and we’re trying ahead to what’s forward. I am completely happy to be right here. I like this group quite a bit and I like this metropolis quite a bit. I am simply trying to develop and get higher with my guys round me.”  

Along with being a high-level scorer, Rozier additionally emerged as a clutch shot-maker for Charlotte final season. Rozier made the fourth-most clutch 3-pointers in your entire NBA final season (14), behind solely Damian Lillard, Steph Curry and Karl Anthony-Cities. He additionally shot a formidable 45 p.c on these clutch three alternatives. It was a stable season throughout for Rozier, however he is removed from happy, as his said objective heading into the offseason was enchancment. 

“My coach and I began speaking immediately and we knew there’s simply extra work that we have now to do,” he stated. “Simply get again on this summer season, we modify and go and get higher. There’s nothing else to it. That is my mindset each offseason – how can I get higher? I am prepared to take these steps and it is solely up from right here. It is solely going to get higher.

“I do not know the place my largest development this season got here from, however I do know I am prepared to get higher and know I’ll get higher,” Rozier added. “… I wish to get every little thing I can out of this [sport], so once I’m performed with this sport, I may be proud of myself.” 

The Hornets have missed the playoffs in every of the previous 5 seasons, they usually have not really received a postseason collection since 2002. Nonetheless, with the younger, gifted roster that the staff has constructed, Charlotte seems to be trending in the best path, and Rozier will now proceed to be a giant a part of that.