After a wild first day of free agency on Monday, things slowed down a little on Tuesday, with only two of today’s reported free agent agreements exceeding $12.1MM. Still, another 20+ free agents came off the board over the course of the day.
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Listed below are Tuesday’s notable contract agreements and news items. For the most part, these deals aren’t yet official, so the reported terms could change — or agreements could fall through altogether. Generally speaking though, teams and players are on track to finalize these deals sometime after the moratorium ends on Friday.
Here are Tuesday’s noteworthy free agent agreements:
Note: Some of these salary figures may includes options, incentives, or non-guaranteed money.
- DeMar DeRozan, Bulls agree to three-year, $85MM contract (sign-and-trade).
- Talen Horton-Tucker, Lakers agree to three-year, $32MM contract.
- Rudy Gay, Jazz agree to two-year, $12.1MM contract.
- Patty Mills, Nets agree to two-year, $12.1MM contract.
- Kendrick Nunn, Lakers agree to two-year, $10MM contract.
- Ish Smith, Hornets agree to two-year, $9MM-ish contract.
- Georges Niang, Sixers agree to two-year, $6.7MM contract.
- Robin Lopez, Magic agree to one-year, $5MM contract.
- Bruce Brown, Nets agree to one-year, $4.7MM contract.
- Abdel Nader, Suns agree to two-year, $4.2MM contract.
- Carmelo Anthony, Lakers agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Nemanja Bjelica, Warriors agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Sam Dekker, Raptors agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Andre Drummond, Sixers agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Taj Gibson, Knicks agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- James Johnson, Nets agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Malik Monk, Lakers agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Markieff Morris, Heat agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Hassan Whiteside, Jazz agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Didi Louzada, Pelicans agree to four-year contract.
- Jock Landale, Spurs agree to two-year contract.
- Tony Snell, Trail Blazers agree to one-year contract.
- Bryn Forbes, Spurs agree to contract.
Here are a few more of the day’s most notable headlines:
- Stephen Curry and the Warriors agreed to four-year, $215MM veteran contract extension.
- The Hawks reportedly made a five-year, $125MM contract offer to restricted free agent John Collins.
- The Spurs will acquire Thaddeus Young, Al-Farouq Aminu, and three draft picks – including a first-rounder – from the Bulls in the DeRozan sign-and-trade.
- The Bucks are preparing to sign both George Hill and Rodney Hood after they clear waivers later in the week.
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GSW just need to get themselves a good veteran back up for behind Curry and that’ll be a good offseason for them.
Lakers have done excellent
Heat have done great.
Jazz have done some smart moves
Bulls have made big moves.
Nets are trying their best
Celtics have taken a step back
Raptors going backwards
Spurs now must go young
The Warriors definitely need to find a reliable backup for Steph who will turn 34 before the end of next season. Even though he managed to miss just 9 games last season he was out for 104 of their 229 games over the previous 3 seasons. Despite the fact that fans hate it, load management will be a huge part of the upcoming NBA season. Especially for the teams with older stars.
Not much talent left in the way of back up point guards either. Can’t see them in the running for Schroder or Dinwiddie, Reggie Jackson is most likely staying with the clippers, Isiah Thomas would be very very unlikely, maybe Jeff Teague, maybe Elfrid Payton but I don’t like his fit, Raul Neto would represent a considerable drop off in talent
Disagree on Lakers doing “excellent”. However watching 2 massive egos try to share 1 basketball will be entertaining. Melo at this point is just ring chasing but I don’t he gets one on this team.
Maybe not be excellent in your eyes but if your able to throw away KCP, Harrell and Kuzma for a all star level player in a position that you need your doing something good. Then they got Melo, Ellington, Ariza, Howard, Nunn and Monk all to come join up and keep hold of THT. That’s pretty darn good good.
GSW is TBD—I think if they start the season with Kuminga and Wiseman on the roster that will be a bit of a disappointment.
Hate to say it but I have to agree on LAL. For being absolute bottom feeders they’ve done well. I still don’t love the Russ trade but they’ve done about as well as you could hope for building up the back half if the roster.
Getting Morris as a backup for Tucker is low-key but substantial. Not sure I totally buy into the Lowry Butler Bam as Big 3 but we’ll see.
Bulls starting 5 is intriguing. Given how they ended last year that’s impressive enough.
Big losers: Celtics losing Fournier for nothing, Knicks making Fournier their marquee signing, and the Pelicans for clearing cap space to still give up on Ball and lose out on Lowry.
Celtics I’m so disappointed, Ainge is somewhere laughing
Getting Ball and DDR is a coup for Chicago, not only in a vacuum but in relation to the East, where Boston, NY and Indiana seem to be treading water, Philly is in turmoil, and Toronto is taking a step back. The Bulls are officially in the Tier 2 mix I’d say.
Interesting for Dallas, as both of those guys (and Lowry) made some sense for them next to Luka. Seems like maybe they’ll be running it back with THJ? I’d like to see them get an upgrade and I believe this is the last year they’ll have the room to add via FA.
A little disappointing for them so far.
Really was a lot of movement this year. Especially with not many big name FA. I think most teams really tried addressing their needs. Or at least some. Can’t remember a yr of FA like this. I think it shows how deep the NBA is today. We still have a few trades coming. I think
Nearly $30M/yr for DeRozan (AND giving up picks to pay him that)? Bulls GM needs to be fired
For me the heat are the winners so far in fa. All they need is a good back center. Bulls come in second . Then Jaz and suns tied for keeping important players and adding players they needed. Then Lakers ( still have ? For them) .
Knicks did ok. At least all their signing have a team option in their last year .
Couple more days the Timberwolves can start kicking the cans in the street and see if they can find a useful 10th man under a rock possibly
Ish Smith signing form 9 mil-ish. I see you. Lol.