Free Agency

DeMarcus Cousins’ season-ending Achilles injury greatly changed the complexion of his impending free agency. Where he was a max-salary lock before, he’s now the league’s biggest question mark. Will the New Orleans Pelicans match other offers from rival teams? Will he even have substantial offers elsewhere? Do the Pelicans even want to pay him after [...]

Will Barton wants to stay with the Denver Nuggets—which makes sense. They helped salvage his career after he came over from the Portland Trail Blazers as part of the Arron Afflalo trade. He’s since morphed into one of the NBA’s most plucky bench contributors, even garnering some Sixth Man of the Year consideration over each [...]

Aaron Gordon doesn’t expect to be wearing a different jersey next season. Though the 22-year-old will be the most sought-after restricted free agent of the summer, opening the door for over-the-top offer sheets, he believes he’ll be a member of the Orlando Magic to start 2018-19, per Magic.com’s John Denton: With Aaron Gordon headed toward the uncertainty [...]

The murmurs on where LeBron James decides to sign as an unrestricted free agent this summer will only grow louder from here to July. Many think it is a four team race between the Cavaliers re-signing him, the Lakers, 76ers or the Rockets. Nobody truly knows what James will do at this point though, because [...]

When Zach LaVine becomes a restricted free agent, he may have fewer than 25 games under his belt since suffering an ACL tear with the Minnesota Timberwolves last season. Though he has since rejoined the Chicago Bulls rotation, he’s once again sidelined with tendinitis in said knee—a setback that could adversely impact the value of [...]

If the Utah Jazz wish to keep Dante Exum, it may cost them a fairly pretty penny. The 22-year-old is just seven games into his return from what was initially deemed season-ending shoulder surgery, but he will become a restricted free agent in July. So while the Jazz don’t have a huge sample size to [...]

Surely there’s no way Enes Kanter declines his $18.6 million player option for next season and becomes a free agency this summer. Right? Most still consider the New York Knicks’ big man a lock to opt in. He isn’t getting that kind of money per year in this year’s market. The league is still recovering [...]

Twenty-seven percent of NBA players polled by ESPN agree: The Boston Celtics make the league’s best free-agency pitches. The worldwide leader polled “48 NBA pros” on various hot topics, including LeBron James’ free agency, DeMarcus Cousins’ future with the New Orleans Pelicans and LaVar Ball’s impact on the Los Angeles Lakers’ appeal. ESPN also asked [...]

Congrats, Cavaliers fans: At least one person inside the NBA’s vast circle would be shocked to see LeBron James leave Cleveland in free agency this summer. From The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears: “I wouldn’t be surprised if he stays in Cleveland now,” one high-ranking Eastern Conference team executive said. “The Cavaliers put a really good [...]

Shaquille O’Neal has some thinly veiled advice for LeBron James: sign with the Golden State Warriors this summer. As The Big Aristotle said while making an appearance on ESPN’s First Take (via NBA on TNT): [tweet https://twitter.com/NBAonTNT/status/964213694069657602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Flebronwire.usatoday.com%2F2018%2F02%2F15%2Fshaq-on-lebron-james-free-agency-id-go-to-golden-state%2F] Okay, wow. This isn’t so much airtight advice as it is Shaq playing the “If I were you card,” [...]