Jrue Holiday signs 4-year extension that helps Celtics keep core together
Jrue Holiday is sticking around. The veteran guard has agreed to a four-year, $135 million extension with the Boston Celtics, his agent told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Holiday, 33, is declining his $37.3 million player option for the 2024-25 season in order to sign the longer-term deal that locks him up through the 2027-28 season. The final year of the deal is a player option, according to the Boston Globe's Adam Himmelsbach.
The deal will save the Celtics several million dollars against the cap next season and increases their chances of keeping together the entire core of Holiday, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Kristaps Porzingis, Derrick White and Al Horford.
All six of them are now under contract at least through next season, as are seventh and eighth men Payton Pritchard and Sam Hauser.
The Celtics acquired Holiday from Portland in a blockbuster trade over the summer that sent Malcolm Brogdon, Robert Williams and two first-round picks to the Trail Blazers. Holiday had been traded from Milwaukee to Portland as part of the Damian Lillard deal just days earlier.
Holiday, who won a title with the Bucks in 2021, has been a great fit for the Celtics at both ends of the floor, averaging 12.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game and helping to lead Boston to the best record in the NBA. He is shooting a career-best 43.1% from three.
