Toumani Camara, Blazers Agree to $82M Contract After Earning NBA All-Defensive Honors

Toumani Camara is going to be with the Portland Trail Blazers for the foreseeable future.

The former 2023 second-round pick and 2024-25 second-team All-Defensive selection signed a four-year, $82 million contract extension with the team on Sunday, per ESPN's Shams Charania.

Camara, 25, averaged 11.3 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.5 steals per game, last season, shooting 45.8 percent from the field and 37.5 percent from three. As Charania noted, the forward "ranked ninth in total steals among NBA players and became one of seven players with 100 steals and 50 blocks in a season."

The Blazers had a team option for the 2026-27 season on Camara's contract, but that will be replaced by the first year of his new extension, per ESPN's Bobby Marks.

He could've signed for as much as $87 million over four years, so it was a slight team discount for the Blazers, offering them solid salary cap flexibility going forward.

Currently, the team's core is built around a young group that includes Camara, Scoot Henderson, Shaeden Sharpe, Donovan Clingan, Yang Hansen and Deni Avdija, with veterans like Jrue Holiday and Jerami Grant sprinkled in.

Whether that's enough to sneak into the playoffs this season, in a loaded Western Conference, remains to be seen. But the Blazers are building toward the future and ensured that Camara will remain a part of that process for years to come.