Agents: Blazers' Sharpe, Camara reach extensions

The Portland Trail Blazers person reached a four-year, $90 cardinal rookie hold with defender Shaedon Sharpe and a four-year, $82 cardinal hold with guardant Toumani Camara, their agents told ESPN connected Sunday.

Agents Mike George of Klutch Sports, who represents Sharpe, and Dave Putterie, who represents Camara, told ESPN of the extensions.

Sharpe, 22, was the No. 7 prime successful the 2022 NBA draught and is seen astir the league arsenic an ascending scorer and playmaker. In his 3rd NBA season, helium averaged 18.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists successful 72 games.

A hyperathletic wing, Sharpe changeable northbound of 75% wrong 3 feet of the handbasket and racked up 65 dunks, and helium had the highest mean leap tallness among players to marque astatine slightest 50 dunks, per GeniusIQ. He struggled with ratio farther distant from the rim but has shown a willingness to occurrence distant from heavy careless (6.6 3-point attempts per crippled past season).

His 7 vocation games with astatine slightest 30 points is the astir by immoderate Trail Blazers subordinate earlier turning 22 years old.

Camara, an NBA All-Defensive second-team enactment past season, has blossomed into a captious and durable two-way subordinate aft being picked No. 52 by the Phoenix Suns successful the 2023 NBA draft. The Trail Blazers acquired him from the Suns successful the three-team commercialized that progressive Damian Lillard going to the Milwaukee Bucks and Deandre Ayton going to Portland on with Camara.

With the extension, the Blazers present fastener successful Camara done the 2029-30 play pursuing a run successful which the 6-foot-7 guardant ranked ninth successful full steals among NBA players and became 1 of 7 players with 100 steals and 50 blocks successful a season.

He was the archetypal Trail Blazers subordinate to marque an All-Defensive squad since the 2003-04 season, erstwhile Theo Ratliff, who was acquired via commercialized from the Atlanta Hawks that season, besides was a second-team selection.

Camara drew 91 violative fouls past season, which was the 2nd astir successful a play since subordinate tracking began successful 2013-14.