{"id":319574,"date":"2025-10-20T21:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319574\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:57:10","slug":"hawks-reach-deal-on-100-million-extension-with-dyson-daniels-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319574\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks reach deal on $100 million extension with Dyson Daniels, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta Hawks guard Dyson Daniels has agreed to a four-year, $100 million rookie contract extension, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the Hawks announced an extension with Daniels, but did not reveal terms of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels earned the extension after being named the NBA\u2019s most improved player while finishing as the runner-up as defensive player of the year last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are beyond thrilled to reach a long-term deal with Dyson, and we are excited to watch him continue to grow with our group,\u201d Hawks general manager Onsi Saleh said in a statement. \u201cThis extension reflects our belief in him today and into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniels led the NBA with 3.01 steals per game last season. He was the first player since Alvin Robertson in 1990-91 to average at least three steals per game. His 229 steals were the most in Hawks franchise history. He also led the league with 443 deflections.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels added surprising offense by setting a career high with 14.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawks-pelicans-murray-trade-650bb98415500938870f9a5ca60179da\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired Daniels<\/a> as part of a package that included two first-round picks in a trade which sent guard Dejounte Murray to New Orleans before the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels, a native of Australia, started all 76 games for the Hawks and also averaging 5.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists as Trae Young\u2019s backcourt partner.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta Hawks guard Dyson Daniels has agreed to a four-year, $100 million rookie contract extension,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[160295,3119,160296,25876,10104,4353,1260,6326,62,21181,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-319574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-alvin-robertson","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-dejounte-murray","11":"tag-dyson-daniels","12":"tag-ga-state-wire","13":"tag-georgia","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-basketball","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-trae-young","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}