Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard has agreed to a two-year, $44.2 million contract extension that includes a mutual option for the 2029-30 season, CAA co-head of basketball Austin Brown and agent Max Saidman confirmed Tuesday.
Pritchard, the 2024 NBA champion and 2025 Sixth Man of the Year, receives a fully guaranteed two-year max extension that keeps him a key long-term piece of the retooled Celtics. The 6-foot-1 guard averaged career highs in points (17), assists (5.2) and rebounds (3.9) last season.
Contract details
The deal keeps Pritchard under contract for an additional season beyond his current deal, which ends in 2028. He will earn more than $21 million for the 2028-29 season. The mutual option for 2029-30 is worth nearly $23 million, and either side can opt in to that final season. The option also opens the window for extension talks that summer.
Pritchard is currently playing on a deal that pays him $7.8 million this season and $8.3 million next season.
A bigger role
Pritchard thrived last season, starting 50 games and helping the Celtics cope with the loss of Jayson Tatum for much of the year by taking on a larger offensive role. His touches per game rose from 51.8 in 2024-25 to nearly 70 last season, the second-largest increase among the 33 players who recorded at least 4,000 touches in each season.
The 28-year-old is one of four players to make at least 200 3-pointers in multiple seasons in Celtics history, joining Tatum, Derrick White and Antoine Walker. He has also been durable throughout his six NBA seasons. His 241 games played over the last three years are tied for the third-most in the league during that span.
The Celtics selected Pritchard with the No. 26 pick in the 2020 NBA draft. The new deal keeps him in Boston through at least his ninth season, and potentially a 10th if the mutual option is exercised.