Jrue Holiday has committed to signing a lucrative five-year, $126 million contract to return to the New Orleans Pelicans, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Free-agent guard Jrue Holiday has agreed to a five-year, $126 million deal to stay with the New Orleans Pelicans, his agent Jason Glushon told ESPN on Saturday morning.
The deal includes incentive clauses that could push the contract’s value to $150 million and contains a player option for the fifth year, Glushon said.
Holiday met with Pelicans officials on Friday night in New Orleans and soon after decided to close on the deal.
Holiday slept on his decision, ultimately choosing to re-sign with the franchise who displayed its true colors by supporting and promptly standing by his side during his wife Lauren’s brain operation in September.
From an on-court perspective, New Orleans provides the most talented frontcourt tandem in recent memory, a point guard’s dream. The Pelicans have firmly secured their core of Holiday, Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins.
Holiday averaged 15.4 points and 7.3 assists in 67 games last season, shooting a career-best 45 percent from the field.
