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Bertan officially signs the new contract

Dāvis Bertāns and Artūrs Kalnītis Photo: https://twitter.com/DBertans_42/

National Basketball Associations (NBA) The Washington Wizards team has officially signed a new five-year deal with Latvian striker Dāvis Bertāns, with a total value of $ 80 million.

Bertan’s salary “on paper” in the coming seasons will be 13.8, 14.9, 16, 17.1 and 18.2 million dollars, respectively. In the previous two seasons, the royalist earned seven million each.

In the 2019/2020 season, Bertāns played 54 games as a member of “Wizards”, during which he scored 15.4 points in every 29.3 minutes played in an average match, collected 4.5 rebounds, scored 1.7 times, as well as long shots. realized with 42.4% accuracy, making 8.7 trejachus. It was the best season of his career ever.

He also won third place in the Star Game long shot competition, as well as “Wizards” nominated a Latvian for the “sixth player” award, which he did not win.

In the period from November 17 to December 18, Bertāns scored at least four three-pointers in 12 of the 16 games, making an average of almost 10 shots and selling 48.4% of the program. It was her the hottest stage of the season.

The incredible accuracy of the Latvian basketball player continued until the end of the season at the beginning of March. In each of the last six games of the season, Bertāns scored at least three three-pointers, in some games he tried his luck from the three-point line up to eight times.

With 42.4% three-point throw accuracy, Bertāns became only the second player in the history of the league after Stefan Curry, who realized 40% of three-pointers with at least 8.5 attempts in the game.

Bertan last season confirmed that he is one of the NBA the best long shot performers.

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