A day after Dante Exum inked a multi-million dollar NBA contract, Patty Mills also hit the jackpot.
Mills resigned with the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday in a three-year, $US12 million ($A13m) deal.
It is a big pay rise for the Australian point guard, who was heroic last month in the Spurs' championship-winning game against the Miami Heat when he exploded with four three-pointers in five minutes.
Mills, 25, earned near the NBA minimum $US1 million per year the past two seasons.
The Canberra-born Mills was deadly from behind the three-point arc in the Spurs' championship-winning season.
He shot 42.5 per cent from three point range, ranking him as the seventh-most accurate long-range shooter in the NBA and his 135 three-pointers were the most on the Spurs.
Mills was expected to test the free market, but shoulder surgery will force him to miss the first three months of the 2014/15 season and he loves the San Antonio area.
The injury won't prevent him from travelling to Australia next week when he and fellow Australian Spur Aron Baynes will fly around the nation, including Mills' ancestral home of Thursday Island, showing off the NBA Championship trophy.
Exum, who turns 19 on Sunday, was last month selected number five by the Utah Jazz in the NBA Draft and on Friday he signed a $US3.615 million first-year contract.
While Exum and Mills have secured their futures, a group of Australians are playing in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas hoping to earn an NBA contract.
Brock Motum is trialling with the Utah Jazz, the NBL's top scorer Chris Goulding is on the Dallas Mavericks squad while 217cm centre Jordan Vandenberg is playing with the New York Knicks.
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