Player Option

Steph Curry was obscenely underpaid the past four seasons, winning two league MVPs and two NBA titles while being paid $11 million per season, less than Timofey Mozgov. That finally changed as Curry signed a five-year, $201 million super-max extension this summer. According to Marcus Thompson of The Athletic, Curry and his agent requested a [...]

According to a report from ESPN & Ramona Shelburne Tuesday morning, Chicago Bulls guard and former NBA Finals MVP Dwyane Wade is leaning toward picking up his $24 million player option with the Bulls for the 2017-18 season. [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/877140688013598720] Wade will be entering his 15th NBA season at the age of 35, and while [...]

Greg Monroe has been the subject of trade rumors for a long, long time, and yet there’s a chance he’ll stick with the Milwaukee Bucks for the next two years. Milwaukee has failed to move the big man thus far, which comes as no surprise, given that he’s a defensively challenged tower who doesn’t space [...]

Whether or not the Cavs win the title this season, this may be J.R. Smith’s final go-round with team. Even though he’s no doubt focused on winning two more games this season, Smith has until midnight on Thursday to decide if he’d pick up his option, so he had to spend some time deciding his [...]

June 17th, 2008 – Dr. Dime In Part I of our NBA pre-draft trade rumors we discussed a couple of Raptors-Knicks and Raptors-Pistons trade talks. Although we have heard that the calls of Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo to Pistons GM Joe Dumars have begun to go unanswered as of late, there apparently are still mutual [...]

May 11th, 2008 – Dr. Dime Baron Davis has one more year left on his six year, $84 million contract extension he signed with the New Orleans Hornets, before getting traded to the Golden State Warriors. What some fans in Golden State weren’t aware of regarding Davis’ contract is the player option he has to [...]