Free Agency

The Utah Jazz do not seem overly worried about Gordon Hayward’s scheduled foray into free agency next summer. That’s a big deal. Hayward holds a player option on 2017-18 worth a little more than $16.7 million, which he will decline. He is in the prime of his career and the salary cap is expected to [...]

Well you know the regular season is finally around the corner when you start to hear the free agency chatter for the upcoming off-season. We haven’t even gotten to game 1 of the 2016-17 season and the rumor mill is churning around one of the better young wing players (in a league devoid of them) [...]

Jeremy Lin entered free agency after a terrific year with the Charlotte Hornets. The New York Knicks, at the time, needed a good point guard. Lin, most likely, wanted a starting spot. The timing was perfect. These two parties needed each other, just like they did in 2011-12, only in a different capacity. Lin needed [...]

Blake Griffin’s future with the Los Angeles Clippers may not be up in the air after all. Many expect the All-Star forward to, at the very least, explore all possibilities once he, presumably, exercises his early termination option next summer and becomes a free agent. But, according to Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders, that’s not [...]

After renegotiating his current contract, Russell Westbrook will be with the Oklahoma City Thunder through at least the 2017-18 season. The extension itself, while encouraging, has given the Thunder two seasons, before his player option ahead of 2018-19, to sell Westbrook on a long-term future in Oklahoma City. That long-term pitch begins immediately. And it [...]

In theory, Dirk Nowitzki should’ve always been a max player for the Mavs, and it should be that way until the day he retires. He’s meant that much to the organization. But Dirk has willingly taken less money along the way, in hopes that Mark Cuban would use that extra cash to recapture what they [...]

Three cheers for consolation prizes! The Los Angeles Clippers were one of a handful of NBA teams that landed a face-to-face meeting with Kevin Durant in free agency—one of five others, to be exact: Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs. And while they ultimately left the contest [...]

The NBA’s 2016-17 season has yet to begin, but Boston Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas is already thinking about what happen in 2018. Yes, 2018. That’s when Thomas will reach free agency and, by his own words, search for a lucrative deal. As he told CSNNE.com’s A. Sherrod Blakely: They better bring out the Brinks [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers know LeBron James won’t be going anywhere in free agency. They just don’t know when he’s going to make his return official. Per Chris Haynes of Cleveland.com: LeBron James has yet to notify the Cleveland Cavaliers when he intends to re-sign, league sources informed cleveland.com during NBA Summer League. July 7 was [...]

Dirk Nowitzki is still a member of the Dallas Mavericks after agreeing a two-year, $40 million…and that was always the plan. We knew this, of course. Nowitzki is a Mavericks lifer. It was difficult to envision him playing anywhere else. But the Golden State Warriors had the ability to carve out cap space, plus the [...]