Pascal Siakam Signs Max Contract with Pacers

Pascal Siakam will sign a four-year, $189.5 million maximum contract with the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard and general manager Chad Buchanan presented the max offer to Siakam. Siakam plans to sign the deal once the league’s free agency moratorium ends on July 6. Siakam arrived in Indiana after the blockbuster trade with Toronto back in January. The trade immediately paid off after the Pacers defeated the Knicks to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. The pairing of Pascal Siakam and Tyrese Haliburton have become a great pair. The Pacers will now have Haliburton and Siakam under contract through 2028 and 2029, respectively. Siakam’s deal would rank second in Pacers history to the five-year, $245 million max extension signed by Haliburton last year.

Siakam averaged 21.3 points on 55% shooting and 39% 3-point shooting in 41 regular-season games upon arriving in Indiana. He became the third player to average 35 points and 10 rebounds in each of his first two playoff games, joining Elgin Baylor (1961) and Wilt Chamberlain (1967). He scored 367 points in the 2024 playoffs, the most for a Pacers player since Paul George in 2014. Siakam, the 26th overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft, was voted the NBA’s Most Improved Player in 2019, when he was an integral part of Toronto’s first championship season.