Horford, Celtics agree to 2-year, $20M extension

Boston Celtics halfway Al Horford has agreed connected a two-year, $20 cardinal declaration hold that ties him to the franchise done his 39th day successful 2025, his cause Jason Glushon of Glushon Sports Management told ESPN connected Thursday morning.

Horford, a five-time All-Star, is completing the last play of a four-year, $109 cardinal contract. Horford volition gain $26.5 cardinal this season, with the caller woody opening successful 2023-24.

The hold eliminates the anticipation of a repetition of 2019, erstwhile Horford near the Celtics for a much lucrative escaped bureau offer. The imaginable escaped cause centers disposable adjacent summertime see Indiana's Myles Turner, Chicago's Nikola Vucevic, Milwaukee's Brook Lopez, Dallas' Christian Wood and San Antonio's Jakob Poeltl.

Horford has had a vocation revival successful his 2nd tally with the Celtics, emerging arsenic an integral portion of a title contender. At 36, helium has remained a productive player, and helium continues to clasp a important magnitude of respect wrong the locker country and successful the Boston community.

Horford was astir precocious an All-Star and a second-team All-Defensive squad enactment successful 2018.

Horford's quality successful the NBA Finals a play agone ended the league's longest playoff streak -- 141 postseason games -- without winning a league championship, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

Horford is averaging 10.9 points and 6.3 rebounds successful 31 minutes a crippled this season, anchoring the Celtics' beforehand enactment successful the lack of injured starting halfway Robert Williams III. Horford has changeable 55.5% from the floor, and 48.8% connected 3-pointers -- the third-highest percent among centers, according to ESPN Stats & Info data.

Horford's Game 1 show against Golden State made him lone the 4th subordinate successful the shot-clock epoch to people 25 points connected 75% shooting successful a Finals debut, a database that included Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

No subordinate contested much shots successful the 2022 NBA playoffs -- 437 -- than Horford, according to Second Spectrum tracking. He's 1 of 5 players to contention astatine slightest 400 shots successful a azygous postseason since subordinate tracking began a decennary ago.

Horford near Boston for Philadelphia connected a four-year, $109 cardinal escaped cause woody successful 2019, past landed successful Oklahoma City successful a commercialized successful 2020 earlier the Celtics reacquired him successful 2021.

Horford, the No. 3 prime successful the 2007 NBA draft, retired of Florida, played his archetypal 9 NBA seasons with the Atlanta Hawks earlier leaving successful escaped bureau for Boston successful 2016.

Horford played 3 years with the Celtics earlier the stops with the 76ers and Thunder and his 2021 instrumentality to Boston.