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Mitchell Robinson agrees to three-year, $47.4 million deal with Celtics after Knicks’ 2026 title
The center, who played through a hand injury for the Knicks' 2026 championship team, signed a $47.4 million contract. The agreement becomes official on July 6.
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Mitchell Robinson has agreed to a three-year, $47.4 million contract with the Boston Celtics. The deal cannot be made official until Monday. Robinson detailed the cause of a hand injury he sustained during the playoffs in a Facebook post on July 5.
He said he fractured the fifth metacarpal bone in his right hand after learning his youngest brother had been in a car crash with potentially severe or life-threatening injuries while Robinson was 910 miles away. "Being 910 miles away, I felt helpless. In a moment of frustration, I banged my hand on my truck," Robinson wrote.
He underwent surgery for the injury during the layoff between the Eastern Conference finals and the NBA Finals but did not miss any games. The New York Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals and defeated the San Antonio Spurs in five games to win the 2026 NBA Finals, their first championship since 1973.
Robinson also wrote that he made a sacrifice during the season by seeing his daughter less often to focus on basketball.
"I battled with so much throughout this season even made a huge sacrifice to not see my daughter as much this season because I needed to focus and lock in so she can have a better future than I did," he said.