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Highest-Paid NBA Players By Team

July 31st, 2013 at 11:19am CST by Luke Adams

Had Brandon Jennings re-signed with the Bucks on a long-term deal, he had a good chance to become the team's highest-paid player for the 2013/14 season, since the club's current highest salary for the season is just $8MM. After Milwaukee agreed to send Jennings to Detroit in a sign-and-trade deal though, it appears the list of highest-paid players by team for 2013/14 has been set.

Of the remaining available free agents, only Nikola Pekovic has a real chance to land the sort of contract that would make him a club's highest-paid player. However, he's viewed as a near-lock to return to the Timberwolves, in which case he's not likely to challenge Kevin Love's $14.69MM '13/14 salary.

Listed below are the highest-paid players and runners-up by team for 2013/14, along with the player to whom the club has committed the most long-term guaranteeed money. For our purposes, player options and early termination options are considered guaranteed salary, while team options aren't. Amnesty victims also won't be considered here, though if they rank among the team's highest-paid players for '13/14, we'll note it at the bottom of the page.

Here's the full list:

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Knicks Pursuing Beno Udrih

July 31st, 2013 at 9:45am CST by Luke Adams

Having used their mini mid-level exception to sign Pablo Prigioni and Metta World Peace, the Knicks' spending flexibility is limited, with the team only able to offer minimum-salary contracts. However, according to ESPN.com's Marc Stein (via Twitter), the Knicks are pursuing point guard Beno Udrih and are "trying hard" to convince him to accept the minimum.

Even with Prigioni back for 2013/14 and Raymond Felton still under contract, the Knicks are in the market for a third point guard after losing Jason Kidd to the head coaching ranks. The team has been linked to free agents like Sebastian Telfair, Delonte West, and plenty others who have since been signed by other clubs.

Udrih, however, seems to represent one of the best available options for the Knicks on the free agent market. After a stint as the starter in Sacramento, the nine-year NBA veteran has been a productive backup over the last two seasons for the Bucks and Magic, averaging 8.2 PPG, 4.6 APG, and a 14.2 PER in 66 total games for the two teams in 2012/13.

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DaJuan Summers To Sign With Ukrainian Team

July 31st, 2013 at 8:42am CST by Luke Adams

After being released by the Clippers earlier this month, DaJuan Summers appears to be heading overseas for the coming season. Emiliano Carchia of Sportando reports that Summers is expected to sign with Ukraine's Budivelnyk Kyiv.

Summers, 25, appeared in just a pair of contests for the Clippers last season. The BDA Sports client has previously spent time with the Pistons and Pelicans, averaging 3.3 PPG in 83 career games. His deal with the Clips included a non-guaranteed salary for 2013/14, but Los Angeles avoided taking a cap hit for that amount by releasing him before his guarantee date.

While he has yet to make a real impact at the NBA level, Summers played well in 29 games for the D-League's Maine Red Claws last season, averaging 18.0 PPG and 7.6 RPG in 33.1 minutes per contest.

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Odds & Ends: Billups, Brown, Stephenson, Siva

July 30th, 2013 at 10:02pm CST by Michael Pina

A few random notes from around the league.

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Western Notes: Grizzlies, D’Antoni, Mullens

July 30th, 2013 at 9:00pm CST by Michael Pina

A few notes from around the Western Conference.

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Knicks Interested In Delonte West?

July 30th, 2013 at 8:00pm CST by Michael Pina

The Knicks are interested in Delonte West, according to ESPNNewYork.com's Ian Begley, who reports that the free agent guard's representatives have been in discussion with the team.

The 30-year-old West did not play in the NBA last season, with his last run in the league coming on a 44-game stint with the Mavericks in 2011/12. He averaged 9.6 PPG during that stretch, his highest in three years.

West is an eight-year veteran with significant baggage off the court, and New York is just in the preliminary stages of discussion. Conversely, fellow ESPNNY.com scribe Jared Zwerling tweeted it's "highly unlikely" the Knicks sign West, as they're searching for a big man. 

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Raptors Reach Agreement With Daye

July 30th, 2013 at 6:28pm CST by Michael Pina

The Raptors have reached agreement on a two-year deal worth $2MM with free agent forward Austin Daye, according to a tweet from Yahoo! NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski. 

The 25-year-old has been a disappointment since entering the league as the 15th overall pick four years ago, averaging 5.6PPG on just 41% shooting from the floor. Last season, Daye was included as a throw-in piece in the three-team Rudy Gay trade, sending him from the Pistons to the Grizzlies. He averaged 4.5PPG in 55 total games last season.

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Bucks Sign Gary Neal

July 30th, 2013 at 4:05pm CST by Chuck Myron

JULY 30TH, 4:05pm: The Bucks have officially signed Neal, the team announced today (Twitter link).

JULY 27TH, 4:31pm: Bonuses could push the value of Neal's contract to $7MM, TNT's David Aldridge reports (on Twitter).

3:42pm: Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com tweets that the full value of the deal is $6.5MM (hat tip to RealGM.com), which makes a little more sense, considering San Antonio's reluctance to re-sign Neal. If Arnovitz is correct, the Bucks will have to use cap room rather than their room exception.

2:53pm: The Bucks have agreed to sign Gary Neal to a two-year contract worth more than $3MM, a source tells Charles F. Gardner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Twitter link). Marc Stein of ESPN.com reported earlier today that the sides were nearing a deal. It appears that the Spurs withdrew their qualifying offer to Neal, so that allows Milwaukee to sign the combo guard outright without having to wait three days to find out whether the Spurs match. Neal's contract will be fully guaranteed, USA Today's Jeff Zillgitt tweets.

The David Falk client was reportedly likely to re-sign with the Spurs at one point this month, but a deal with San Antonio never materialized. The Bucks were one of four teams with interest in Neal, who was receiving offers that the Spurs were reluctant to match, prompting GM R.C. Buford and company to sign Marco Belinelli.

The Bucks can absorb Neal's contract into either their room exception, which allows a starting salary of $2.652MM, or their plentiful cap space. Bringing Neal aboard doesn't figure to have much affect on the team's negotiations with Brandon Jennings, since Milwaukee can go over the cap to re-sign him.

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Poll: Which Team Will Win The West?

July 30th, 2013 at 3:58pm CST by Luke Adams

When we asked last week whether the Rockets would earn a spot in the 2014 NBA Finals, only about one in six of you said yes. That's a fairly strong signal that Houston isn't the favorite to come out of the Western Conference, but there doesn't appear to be a consensus on which team is the frontrunner.

Popular betting site Bovada.lv lists Oklahoma City as the team most likely to represent the West in the Finals, with 6-to-1 odds to capture the 2014 title. However, the Thunder have stood relatively pat this summer, while losing their best scorer off the bench (Kevin Martin). As Grantland's Zach Lowe outlined in his latest piece, many of OKC's main competitors in the West look at least as dangerous as they did last season, if not moreso.

Last year's Western champs, the Spurs, should remain a serious contender even as Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili move into their late 30s, having tweaked the edges by adding players like Marco Belinelli and Jeff Pendergraph. Teams like the Clippers and Warriors added key complementary players like J.J. Redick and Andre Iguodala, respectively, and appear to be gaining on the conference's top teams. The Nuggets, having lost Iguodala could take a step back, but the club won 57 games last season, so even a moderate drop-off should leave Denver in the playoff picture. The Grizzlies, who might have the NBA's best defense, also can't be ruled out, especially after earning a spot in the Western Finals this year.

What do you think? Which team do you like to win the West next spring?

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Nets Sign Alan Anderson

July 30th, 2013 at 3:39pm CST by Luke Adams

JULY 30TH, 3:39pm: The Nets have officially signed Anderson, the team announced today in a press release.

JULY 26TH, 6:05pm: The deal is for the minimum salary, according to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News. 

11:48am: The Nets and Alan Anderson have reached an agreement on a two-year contract, agent Mark Bartelstein tells Jorge Sierra of HoopsHype (Twitter link). Brooklyn has already committed its mini mid-level exception to Andrei Kirilenko, so Anderson figures to receive a minimum-salary contract. The second year will be a player option, according to HoopsHype (Twitter link).

Anderson, 30, is the latest addition to a Nets roster that has undergone a significant overhaul this offseason. So far this offseason, the team has added Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Terry, Kirilenko, Shaun Livingston, Mason Plumlee, and now Anderson to a core that already included Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Brook Lopez, Andray Blatche, and others.

In 65 games last season for the Raptors, Anderson scored a career-high 10.7 PPG, albeit with a shooting percentage of just 38.3%. The swingman also shot 33.3% on three-pointers and recorded a career-high 12.6 PER. When I spoke to Anderson in April, he expressed a desire to return to the Raptors, but it appears the club's new decision-makers didn't have a whole lot of interest in bringing him back.

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports initially reported (via Twitter) that Anderson was in the process of finalizing an agreement to join the Nets, after reporting the team's interest earlier in the month.

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