SAN ANTONIO -- The San Antonio Spurs signed Bruce Bowen to a contract extension, the team announced Sunday.
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Terms of the deal were not disclosed by the team, but the San Antonio Express-News said it was a two-year contract that will pay Bowen $4 million in each of the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons.
The second year of the extension is not fully guaranteed, an NBA executive familiar with the details told the newspaper.
Bowen, a 6-foot-7 swingman, is entering his seventh season with the Spurs. Last year he was named to the NBA's All-Defensive First Team for the fourth consecutive year and finished second in voting for Defensive Player of the Year. Bowen, 36, has earned a spot on the NBA's All-Defensive Team in each of the last seven seasons (first team 2004, '05, '06, '07; second team '01, '02, '03) joining Tim Duncan and Jason Kidd as the only players in the NBA with that distinction.
"He's obviously been an important part of what we do," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said, according to the Express-News. "He's a consummate pro, always prepared and his work ethic is incomparable. He deserves it. Night in and night out he's the best perimeter defender in the league."
Last year Bowen was the only Spur to play in all 82 games and enters this season with a streak of 436 consecutive games played and started, which is the longest active streak in the NBA and a Spurs franchise record.
Source: ESPN.com
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