Northwest Rumors: Hamilton, Love, Jazz, Thunder
Jordan Hamilton will be working out for NBA teams in Las Vegas tomorrow, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, and the Timberwolves will be among the teams in attendance, passes along Darren Wolfson of 1500 ESPN Twin Cities (Twitter links). Any interest Minnesota has in the forward will likely have a hard time amounting to anything as a result of the club’s lack of roster space, adds Wolfson. Here’s more on the Wolves and the Northwest:
- One Eastern Conference coach doesn’t understand the reluctance that the Cavs and Warriors have been showing to give up important pieces to the Timberwolves in exchange for Love, as Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated reveals (via Twitter). “If I’m Golden State, I trade Klay Thompson,” said the unnamed coach. “If I’m Cleveland, I trade Andrew Wiggins. Kevin is that good.”
- Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor spoke with NBA TV’s Steve Smith and said he believes Love will play with the team in training camp but stopped short of ruling out a possible trade, notes Andy Greder of the Pioneer Press. “My preference is Kevin (Love) will come to camp – and I’m sure he will – and play with the team,” explained Taylor. “We are going to look at everything that makes sense that would make our team better, but we are not going to move a superb player like that without getting equal or more value back.“
- Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today recaps the summer that the Jazz have had thus far and explores the impact that rookie head coach Quin Snyder figures to have on the franchise’s progression moving forward.
- Anthony Morrow‘s decision to join the Thunder has the sharpshooting swingman excited, observes Darnell Mayberry of the Oklahoman. In choosing to head to OKC, Morrow elected to pass up on interest from several other teams, “too many teams to name,” as Morrow told Mayberry.
Southeast Notes: Jones, Seraphin, Boozer
Despite expressing interest in a return to the Heat, James Jones just couldn’t pass up the chance to play with LeBron James again. Although it’s not clear whether or not Miami had intentions of bringing Jones back for the 2014/15 season, as Joseph Goodman of the Miami Herald details, there’s no doubt LeBron’s return to the Cavs influenced Jones’ decision to hook up with Cleveland. Here’s the latest out of the Southeast..
- The Wizards elected to let Kevin Seraphin hit restricted free agency this summer, but Washington wouldn’t be against bringing the big man back at a price lower than the $3.89MM his qualifying offer would have been worth, reports J. Michael of CSNWashington.com (on Twitter).
- The salary in the first year of Trevor Ariza’s new contract is $8,579,089, according to Mark Deeks of ShamSports, so that’s the value of the trade exception the Wizards create from the sign-and-trade that sent Ariza to the Rockets. Washington is using part of that trade exception to accommodate this evening’s sign-and-trade acquisition of DeJuan Blair. The precise amount of the exception that the Blair trade uses won’t be known until Blair’s first-year salary figure is reported.
- The Hornets aren’t interested in placing a bid on the recently amnestied Carlos Boozer, reveals Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer (via Twitter). Chuck Myron of Hoops Rumors had predicted as much earlier today when the club agreed to terms with Lance Stephenson.
- Andrew Perna of RealGM grades the Hornets‘ acquisition of Stephenson, praising Charlotte and criticizing the Pacers’ decision to let the shooting guard walk after the Heat seemingly lost a step this summer.
Chuck Myron and Cray Allred contributed to this post.
Wizards Acquire DeJuan Blair Via Sign-And-Trade
9:23pm: The deal has been completed, the Wizards announced. Washington will receive Blair from the Mavs in exchange for the rights to Emir Preldzic, a 2009 second-round pick.
5:55pm: Blair’s contract will be for three years and $6MM, with a team option on the final year, tweets Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports.
WEDNESDAY, 12:51pm: The teams are on track to finalize the deal today, reports Marc Stein of ESPN.com (Twitter link). It remains unclear what Dallas would receive in the transaction, but presumably it wouldn’t involve any guaranteed salary.
SUNDAY, 10:25pm: The Wizards and Mavs are in advanced discussions on a potential sign-and-trade that would send DeJuan Blair to Washington, according to Marc Stein of ESPN.com (on Twitter). The Wizards have strong interest in the big man and are in talks to see if a sign-and-trade is possible before the Mavs are forced to renounce him (link).
Blair, who was used inconsistently by the Spurs and hardly at all in the postseason, signed with the Mavericks last summer on a one-year deal. In 15.6 minutes per contest, Blair averaged 6.4 PPG and 4.7 RPG for Dallas last season. For his career, Blair has averaged 7.5 PPG and 5.6 RPG in 18.2 minutes per night.
Thunder Re-Sign Grant Jerrett
WEDNESDAY, 8:22pm: The signing is official, per a team release.
“Grant had an excellent and productive season with the Tulsa 66ers,” Thunder GM Sam Presti said. “We are excited to see him move forward within our program.”
MONDAY, 5:01pm: Free agent Grant Jerrett has reached agreement on a multi-year deal to re-sign with the Thunder, reports Shams Charania of RealGm (Twitter link). Contract length and details haven’t been announced yet.
Jerrett was originally selected 40th overall by the Trail Blazers in the 2013 NBA Draft. His rights were then traded to the Thunder on draft night for cash considerations. He then spent the bulk of the 2013/14 season with the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA D-League where he appeared in 27 games and averaged 15.1 PPG and 6.1 RPG in 29.3 minutes per game. He was signed by the Thunder for the remainder of the season on April 7th, 2014. Jerrett did not make an appearance for the team.
Back on June 30th, the Thunder declined Jerrett‘s $816K option while also extending him a $1.16MM qualifying offer. In that same article, Hoops Rumors’ Chuck Myron predicted that Jerrett would re-sign with Oklahoma City on a multi-year deal for the amount of his qualifying offer that includes at least a partial guarantee in year two to entice him to take a multi-year deal rather than just signing the QO.
Western Notes: Williams, Scott, Clippers
While the Eastern Conference might be in for some major re-shuffling next season, the contenders in the West are all fighting to maintain or improve their positioning for the 2014/15 playoffs. Here’s a rundown from the Western Conference:
- The Mavs are still hoping to land a point guard, namely Mo Williams, tweets Dwain Price of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Dallas wasn’t overly optimistic the veteran would choose them over other what other teams could offer as of yesterday. Jeff Caplan of NBA.com tweets that Williams does have offers on the table exceeding the $2.73MM Dallas can offer from their room exception.
- Caplan writes in a separate piece that Dallas could be a contender this season thanks to the reduced salary Dirk Nowitzki accepted to stay with the Mavs, which gave the team flexibility to add Chandler Parsons, among other moves.
- As expected, the Lakers meeting with coaching candidate Byron Scott passed without a contract offer, reports Mark Medina of Los Angeles Daily News (Twitter links). Medina says that Los Angeles plans to fill out more of their roster before following up with Scott, and that no timetable is clear at this point.
- The Clippers are largely done with their offseason moves, as coach and president of basketball operations Doc Rivers tells Eric Patten of Clippers.com. Rivers added that the club had begun researching guards during the latter part of this past season in anticipation of the departure of Darren Collison.
- Commissioner Adam Silver and Shelly Sterling have talked about reducing Donald Sterling’s lifetime ban, and Silver said Tuesday that he’d be willing to listen to more discussion of the idea if Donald agreed to sell the Clippers, according to Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe (Twitter link). Silver also said Tuesday that it’s possible, given Donald’s legal challenges to the league’s attempt to force him out, that he will continue to own the team at the start of next season, according to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports.
Chuck Myron and Ryan Raroque contributed to this post.
Hawks Acquire Thabo Sefolosha
JULY 16TH, 7:48pm: Sefolosha’s deal has a declining salary structure, with $4,150,000 in 2014/15, $4,000,000 in 2015/16, and $3,850,000 in 2016/17, according to the Hawks updated salary sheet by Mark Deeks of ShamSports.com. That $4.15MM salary in year one is the value of the trade exception the Thunder create with this deal.
6:36pm: The Hawks announced that the deal is official, per team press release.
“Thabo is an unselfish, competitive and playoff-tested player, and does many things well on both sides of the ball,” Hawks president Danny Ferry said in a statement. “He also fills a need, giving us more size and depth at the wing position. He’s been a part of winning programs and will fit our culture well.”
4:40pm: The Thunder will receive the rights to draft-and-stash prospect Sofoklis Schortsanitis, while Atlanta gets Sefolosha, the rights to fellow draft-and-stash prospect Giorgos Printezis, and cash, according to Mayberry (Twitter link).
JULY 15TH, 4:32pm: The Hawks and Thunder are working on a sign-and-trade that would send Sefolosha to Atlanta but allow the Thunder to reap a trade exception, tweets Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman. It’s expected to be finalized today, Mayberry adds.
JULY 10TH, 10:12pm: In spite of the team press release, Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution hears that Sefolosha’s signing has yet to take place (Twitter link). Such news is out of the ordinary, given the team’s announcement, and Vivlamore notes the agreement is still in place, so the deal is likely to happen sometime soon.
6:10pm: The deal is official, the Hawks announce via press release.
“Thabo is an unselfish, competitive and playoff-tested player, and does many things well on both sides of the ball,” Hawks President and GM Danny Ferry said. “He also fills a need, giving us more size and depth at the wing position. He’s been a part of winning programs and will fit our culture well.”
JULY 3RD: The Hawks and Thabo Sefolosha have reached agreement on a three-year, $12MM deal, reports Shams Charania of RealGM. There were serious doubts about the Thunder’s willingness to retain their starting shooting guard since their playoff elimination, and indeed the 30-year-old is headed elsewhere. It’s a fully guaranteed three-year deal with no option clauses involved, Charania adds.
The Clippers, Mavs and Rockets scheduled meetings with the Guy Zucker client, who also visited Washington, according to earlier reports, and Toronto, as Charania writes. The Heat apparently made an inquiry, but there was no report of contact from either the Thunder or the Hawks. Atlanta nonetheless was on the lookout for a wing player with size and wasn’t pleased with the way it played when either Kyle Korver or DeMarre Carroll were unavailable last season, USA Today’s Sam Amick tweets. It appears as though the Hawks have brought Sefolosha in to address those issues.
Atlanta will likely use cap space to finalize the deal, having opened up additional flexibility with this week’s John Salmons trade. It’s doubtful they’ll stop there, however. The Hawks had reportedly thought about making a run at Carmelo Anthony, and while that seems like a remote possibility, they can still open enough cap room for an eye-catching free agent acquisition, even with Sefolosha in tow.
Rockets To Re-Sign Troy Daniels
WEDNESDAY, 7:44pm: Daniels’ contract is for the minimum, totaling $1,763,758 over the two years, per the updated Rockets salary sheet by Mark Deeks of ShamSports.com.
TUESDAY, 6:46pm: It’s for a total of $2MM over two years, writes Jenny Dial Creech of the Houston Chronicle.
MONDAY, 5:41pm: The Rockets have reached an agreement to re-sign restricted free agent guard Troy Daniels, reports Shams Charania of RealGM (Twitter link). The contract is for two years and is fully guaranteed, reports Charania. Financial terms of the were not disclosed. Daniels had also received interest from the Mavericks, Spurs, Grizzlies, and Pelicans.
Houston had turned down their team option on Daniels, and instead extended him a qualifying offer. Daniels was originally scheduled to make the one-year veteran’s minimum of $816,482 on the option next season.
The Rockets had signed Daniels shortly after the trade deadline, cutting Ronnie Brewer to make room. He only appeared in five regular season games, but lit up the D-League, putting up 21.9 PPG and shooting 40.1% from behind the arc. Daniels then emerged as a key rotation player in the playoffs, averaging 7.8 PPG and nailing an impressive 53.3% of his three-pointers in the final four games of Houston’s first-round loss to the Blazers.
Eastern Rumors: Boozer, Blair, Durant
Ethan Skolnick of Bleacher Report details how the Heat’s maneuvers to accommodate the Big Three back in 2010 are now proving costly with the departure of LeBron James. The Heat’s 2015 first round pick–given to the Cavs as part of James’ sign-and-trade to Miami–is still owed to Cleveland, and Miami is still paying Mike Miller‘s amnestied contract while the sharpshooter is on the verge of re-teaming with LeBron in another city. Here’s more from the East:
- The Hawks, reportedly one of the favorites to place a bid on Carlos Boozer, took a step in that direction, as Eric Pincus of Basketball Insiders confirms the team has officially slipped beneath the cap (Twitter link).
- The Mavs promised DeJuan Blair that they would try to sign-and-trade him to give him a financial boost, according to Marc Stein of ESPN.com, and indeed it appears Dallas is close to sending him to the Wizards via sign-and-trade,
- The Wizards will bring University of Maryland women’s assistant coach David Atkins as an assistant coach for player development, tweets Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com. A handful of rival executives see it as a sign that Washington has begun to position itself to make a run at Durant, a D.C. native, according to USA Today’s Jeff Zillgitt (Twitter link), since Atkins was one of Kevin Durant‘s high school coaches, fellow ESPN scribe Mark Stein notes (on Twitter).
Chuck Myron contributed to this post.
2014 Offseason Trades
Our Free Agent Tracker runs down the signings that have taken place this summer, but it doesn’t cover trades. That’s where this post comes in. As we did with last year’s offseason trades and the in-season swaps for 2013/14, we’ll keep track of all of the trades from this summer as they become official, updating this post with each move.
Together with the free agent tracker and the 2013 draft results, you can see the full picture of the movement across the NBA landscape over the past month. For up-to-the-minute news on trades as well as other roster moves as the offseason continues, follow our transactions-only feeds via RSS and Twitter.
The moves are listed in reverse chronological order, with the latest on top. So, if a player has been traded multiple times (as often happens with draft picks), the first team listed as having acquired him is the one that ended up with him. For more details on each trade, click the date above it.
- The Sixers get Travis Outlaw, New York’s 2019 second-round pick, and the right to swap the Clippers 2018 second-round pick with New York’s 2018 second-round pick.
- The Knicks get Arnett Moultrie.
- The Sixers get Marquis Teague and the more favorable of Milwaukee’s and Sacramento’s 2019 second-round picks.
- The Nets get Casper Ware
- The Celtics get Will Bynum
- The Pistons get Joel Anthony
- The Sixers get Keith Bogans and Cleveland’s 2018 second-round pick.
- The Cavaliers get Philadelphia’s 2015 second-round pick if it falls from pick No. 51 through No. 55, as long as the Sixers don’t have to send it to the Celtics to satisfy an obligation from previous trades.
- The Cavaliers get Keith Bogans, Sacramento’s 2015 second-round pick (top-55 protected) and Sacramento’s 2017 second-round pick (top-55 protected).
- The Celtics get Dwight Powell, Erik Murphy, Malcolm Thomas, John Lucas III, Cleveland’s 2016 second-round pick and Cleveland’s 2017 second-round pick.
- The Rockets get Jason Terry, Sacramento’s 2015 second-round pick if it falls anywhere from No. 31 through No. 49, and New York’s unprotected 2016 second-round pick.
- The Kings get Alonzo Gee and Scotty Hopson.
- The Sixers get Hasheem Thabeet and $100K cash.
- The Thunder get Philadelphia’s 2015 second-round pick (top-55 protected).
- The Bucks get Jared Dudley and the Clippers’ 2017 first-round pick (top-14 protected).
- The Clippers get Carlos Delfino, Miroslav Raduljica and their own 2015 second-round pick that they’d given up in a previous trade (as long as it falls between picks 31-50).
- The Cavaliers get Kevin Love.
- The Timberwolves get Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett and Thaddeus Young.
- The Sixers get Luc Mbah a Moute, Alexey Shved, and Miami’s 2015 first-round pick (top-10 protected)
- The Knicks get Quincy Acy and Travis Outlaw.
- The Kings get Wayne Ellington, Jeremy Tyler, and the removal of the protection that existed on New York’s 2016 second-round pick, which the Knicks owe Sacramento from a previous trade.
- The Jazz get Carrick Felix, Cleveland’s 2015 second-round pick, and $1.3MM cash.
- The Cavs get John Lucas III, Malcolm Thomas and Erik Murphy.
- The Wizards get Kris Humphries (sign-and-trade).
- The Celtics get Washington’s 2015 second-round pick (top-49 protected).
- The Wizards get DeJuan Blair (sign-and-trade).
- The Mavericks get the rights to Emir Preldzic.
- The Hawks get Thabo Sefolosha (sign-and-trade), the rights to Giorgos Printezis, and $550K cash.
- The Thunder get the rights to Sofoklis Schortsanitis.
- The Rockets get Trevor Ariza (sign-and-trade), Alonzo Gee, Scotty Hopson and New Orleans’ 2015 first-round pick if it falls anywhere from fourth through 19th.
- The Pelicans get Omer Asik, Omri Casspi and $1.5MM cash.
- The Wizards get Melvin Ely.
- The Mavericks get Greg Smith.
- The Bulls get the rights to Tadija Dragicevic.
- The Magic get Anthony Randolph, the more favorable of Chicago’s and Portland’s 2015 second-round picks, the more favorable of Chicago’s and Portland’s 2016 second-round picks, and cash.
- The Bulls get the rights to Milovan Rakovic.
- The Pelicans get Scotty Hopson.
- The Hornets get cash.
- The Lakers get Jeremy Lin, Houston’s 2015 first-round pick (lottery protected), and the Clippers’ 2015 second-round pick if it falls anywhere from 51st through 55th.
- The Rockets get the rights to Sergei Lishchuk.
- The Cavaliers get Brendan Haywood and the rights to Dwight Powell.
- The Hornets get Scotty Hopson and cash.
- The Suns get Isaiah Thomas (sign-and-trade).
- The Kings get the rights to Alex Oriakhi.
- The Pelicans get Alonzo Gee.
- The Cavaliers get the Clippers’ 2016 second-round pick (top-55 protected).
- The Jazz get Steve Novak and New York’s 2017 second-round pick.
- The Raptors get Diante Garrett.
- The Nets get Jarrett Jack and Sergey Karasev.
- The Cavaliers get Boston’s 2015 second-round pick (top-55 protected) the rights to Ilkan Karaman and Edin Bavcic.
- The Celtics get Marcus Thornton, Tyler Zeller and Cleveland’s 2016 first-round pick (top-10 protected).
- The Raptors get Louis Williams and the rights to Lucas Nogueira.
- The Hawks get John Salmons and Toronto’s 2015 second-round pick.
- The Nuggets get Arron Afflalo.
- The Magic get Evan Fournier and 2014 pick No. 56 (Devyn Marble).
- The Nets get 2014 pick No. 60 (Cory Jefferson).
- The Sixers get cash.
- The Nets get 2014 pick No. 59 (Xavier Thames).
- The Raptors get cash.
- The Knicks get 2014 pick No. 57 (Louis Labeyrie).
- The Pacers get $1.5MM cash.
- The Thunder get 2014 pick No. 55 (Semaj Christon).
- The Hornets get cash.
- The Spurs get 2014 pick No. 54 (Nemanja Dangubic).
- The Sixers get 2014 pick No. 58 (Jordan McRae) and 2014 pick No. 60 (Cory Jefferson).
- The Rockets get 2014 pick No. 53 (Alessandro Gentile).
- The Timberwolves get cash.
- The Hawks get 2014 pick No. 48 (Lamar Patterson).
- The Bucks get Atlanta’s 2015 second-round pick.
- The Sixers get the rights to Pierre Jackson.
- The Pelicans get 2014 pick No. 47 (Russ Smith).
- The Lakers get 2014 pick No. 46 (Jordan Clarkson).
- The Wizards get $1.8MM cash.
- The Nets get 2014 pick No. 44 (Markel Brown).
- The Timberwolves get cash.
- The Grizzlies get 2014 pick No. 35 (Jarnell Stokes)
- The Jazz get the more favorable of Toronto’s and Boston’s 2016 second-round picks.
- The Heat get Shabazz Napier.
- The Hornets get 2014 No. 26 pick (P.J. Hairston), 2014 pick No. 55 (Semaj Christon), Miami’s 2019 second-round pick and cash.
- The Bulls get 2014 pick No. 11 (Doug McDermott) and Anthony Randolph.
- The Nuggets get 2014 pick No. 16 (Jusuf Nurkic), 2014 pick No. 19 (Gary Harris), and the less favorable of Chicago’s and Portland’s 2015 second-round picks.
- The Magic get 2014 pick No. 10 (Elfrid Payton).
- The Sixers get 2014 pick No. 12 (Dario Saric), a 2015 second-round pick, and their own 2017 first-round pick that they’d given up in a previous trade.
- The Mavs get Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton.
- The Knicks get Jose Calderon, Samuel Dalembert, Shane Larkin, Wayne Ellington, 2014 pick No. 34 (Cleanthony Early) and 2014 pick No. 51 (Thanasis Antetokounmpo).
Contract Details: Wade, Deng, Diaw
It took a while, but we finally found out the precise value of the discount that Carmelo Anthony gave the Knicks this afternoon. We’ll have to wait even longer to know whether the more than $5MM in savings that ‘Melo afforded his team will have a worthwhile effect on New York’s ability to squeeze more talent onto its roster, but he’s not the only name free agent taking a cut rate this summer.
- Dwyane Wade gave up more than $41.8MM over two seasons when he opted out of his deal this June, and while he isn’t recouping all of that on his new two-year contract with Miami, he nonetheless received a rare no-trade clause for his trouble, tweets Marc Stein of ESPN.com. He’ll make $15MM for this coming season and the salary in his player option year would be $16.125MM as part of his latest deal with the Heat, reports Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
- Fellow Heat signee Luol Deng will make $9.71MM for this coming season, and his player option for 2015/16 will be worth $10.15MM, according to Windhorst (on Twitter).
- Boris Diaw‘s contract with the Spurs is for four years and $28MM, with only $17.5MM of it guaranteed, Stein reveals (Twitter link). The original report indicated it was a three-year, $22.5MM deal.