Even before the start of his third year in the league, patrick williams learned that his fourth year of contract was now guaranteed. In effect, Spotrac reports that Bulls activated the 21-year-old’s 2023/24 “team option”, worth $9.8 million, to secure his services until the summer of 2024.
Therefore, the 4th choice of the 2020 Draft will go to the end of his rookie contract in Illinois (or elsewhere, in the event of a transfer). It only remains to hope, for Chicago as for him, that he can be freed from his physical glitches, in order to continue his development. He who could only play 17 of the 82 games of the 2021/22 financial year…
When his body does not give him a hard time, as in the last playoffs against the Bucks, Patrick Williams is in any case part of the Bulls holders, turning for example to 9.2 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists on average on his first two NBA seasons (53% on shots and 52% at 3-pts).
| patrick williams | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2020-21 | CHI | 71 | 28 | 48.3 | 39.1 | 72.8 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 9.2 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 17 | 25 | 52.9 | 51.7 | 73.2 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 9.0 |
| Total | 88 | 27 | 49.0 | 41.3 | 72.9 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 9.2 | |
