Free Agency

Danilo Gallinari’s time with the Denver Nuggets may be drawing to a close, even though he doesn’t want it to. The expectation has always been that he’ll decline next season’s $16.1 million player option and enter free agency. He would immediately become a top-12 available name and might be worth short-term max money to the [...]

Soon-to-be NBA free agents get recruited by other players from other teams well in advance of the offseason. This is one of the Association’s worst-kept secrets. So if you’re dealing with a free agent worth a damn, you better believe they’re hearing from rival players. Unless, apparently, they’re Blake Griffin. He told HoopsHype’s Alex Kennedy [...]

Imagine, for a second, the Golden State Warriors lose in the NBA Finals. Might Kevin Durant, who owns a player option for next season, want to leave? Eh, no. The expectation has always been that he’ll return to Golden State no matter what. That hasn’t changed. He said so himself during the Warriors Plus/Minus podcast [...]

After all the New York Knicks have been through, Carmelo Anthony probably wants to leave. Derrick Rose doesn’t. He reiterated as much while speaking with The Undefeated’s Lonnae O’Neal: “I would love to stay here,” Rose said of New York. “I love my teammates, I love the coaches, I love the front office. But this will [...]

With his Dallas Mavericks eliminated from playoff contention , Mark Cuban is ready for the offseason to get here. So that his team can get a new point guard. As the always-candid NBA owner said, per Mavs.com’s Earl K. Sneed: [tweet https://twitter.com/EarlKSneed/status/849438777244356608] [tweet https://twitter.com/EarlKSneed/status/849438514479591425] The Mavericks already have some interesting names to monitor at point guard. [...]

Jrue Holiday will enter free agency this summer, at which time he’ll have an array of suitors and a foregone opportunity to sign a contract that’s worth nine figures over its life. Naturally, he hasn’t given that the slightest bit of thought, per The New Orleans Advocate‘s Scott Kushner: The heralded guard will be a [...]

Let the “Derrick Rose wants a max-contract!” jokes die here, and now, and forever. Actually, keep them holstered, just in case. Despite the fuss that’s been made over how much money the New York Knicks point guard plans to chase in free agency, though, Rose maintains that he wants to win more than he wants [...]

The Brooklyn Nets are riding high after Tuesday night’s victory over the Detroit Pistons and thinking big. Okay, truthfully, they were thinking big way before that win. They have a ton of cap space this summer, and as a team without draft picks and the need or ability to win now, they’re perfectly positioned to [...]

Any team that has soon-to-be free agents with undefined market values better beware the Brooklyn Nets. They have mountains of cap space, plus the incentive to overpay fringe stars both in the short and long term as they schlepp their way through an extensive rebuild. The assumption has always been they would throw max offers at [...]

‘ We’ve talked about it. We’ve thought about it. We’ve assumed it was true. But we’ve never really received confirmation on it. Did the Boston Celtics essentially stand pat at the trade deadline so that they could go after Gordon Hayward (player option) in free agency? The unofficially official answer: Yes and no. Here’s what [...]