Free Agency

According to Bleacher Report Writer Ric Bucher, NBA owners are discussing and campaigning for a franchise tag to be added into the next collective bargaining agreement. This is currently in play as a part of the NFL collective bargaining agreement, where teams have the right to use the “franchise tag” on a player whose contract [...]

Pau Gasol’s roller coaster relationship with the Chicago Bulls is intact. First, he was trade fodder at the deadline. Then, he was a pivotal part of this team’s immediate future. Now, he’s not sure what he is to the Bulls, or what the Bulls are to him. From ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell: After the Bulls’ 106-98 [...]

James Harden and Kevin Durant, together again? Harden’s game. According to ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins, last year’s MVP runner-up will be leading the Rockets’ recruitment of his former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate: The Rockets’ best player and leading scorer will become the main recruiter this summer in the franchise’s quest to sign Kevin Durant, whom Harden [...]

Let the Chicago Bulls’ rumor mill churn on. Pau Gasol is expected to decline his player option for next season and enter unrestricted free agency in July. Though his name popped up at will ahead of the trade deadline, it was assumed once he wasn’t moved that he would remain with the Bulls beyond this [...]

Chandler Parsons’ potential foray into free agency doesn’t get talked about enough. So, let’s talk about it. The 27-year-old owns a player option worth over $16 million for next season. He could eschew free agency for another year and re-enter the fray in 2017, when the salary cap explodes yet again, or he could try [...]

When Billy Donovan left the University of Florida to coach the OKC Thunder, he landed in one of the best coaching gigs in the league. But in just a few years, it’s possible that it could be one of the worst. Kevin Durant becomes a free agent this summer and Russell Westbrook the year after. [...]

The Orlando Magic and veteran forward Channing Frye have agreed on a 4-year, $32 million dollar contract, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. The 6-foot-11 from Arizona decided to opt out of the final year of his contract with the Phoenix Suns, which would earn him $6.8 million—to become an unrestricted free agent. [tweet [...]

July 4, 2012 – Allen Moll Don’t look now Nets fans, but it appears that nearly a decade of bad basketball from the New York area’s “other hoops team”, will thankfully come to an end as GM Billy King and their Russian billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov have begun to build a contender in the Eastern [...]

July 2, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Dwight Howard has made no secret about his desire to play with Deron Williams and the Brooklyn Nets next season and possibly beyond. In fact he is now saying that he would only sign an extension with one team on the list of teams he could get traded [...]

June 14, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors The New York Knicks are in dire need this off season of a high quality long range shooter. Their go-to marksman this season was Iman Shumpert who is likely going to miss the early part of the season due to injury. And even with Shumpert in the lineup, [...]