The NBA’s 2023 free agency period officially begins on Friday at 5:00 pm central time. At that point, we can expect news of contract agreements to start pouring in, continuing well into the night.
By our count, 38 free agents agreed to deals on day one of free agency in 2022, with seven more players reaching agreements on extensions — we’ll see if that number is matched or exceeded later today.
Here are a few links to prepare you for one of the most exciting days on the NBA calendar:
- Top 50 Free Agents Of 2023
Kyrie Irving, Fred VanVleet, Jerami Grant, and Khris Middleton lead the way on our list of the summer’s best available players. - 2023 Free Agents By Position/Type
2023 Free Agents By Team
Want the full breakdown of players available this summer? Take your pick from these two lists. - Key Offseason Dates/Deadlines
A breakdown of the important dates to watch beyond today. - Maximum Salary Projections For 2023/24
Minimum Salary Projections For 2023/24
Mid-Level, Bi-Annual Exception Projections For 2023/24
Our projections are based on a salary cap of $136,021,000. We should find out in a matter of hours what the exact cap for 2023/24 will look like. - Player Option Decisions For 2023/24
Team Option Decisions For 2023/24
The deadline for these decisions was on Thursday, so they’re all in now. - 2023 Qualifying Offer Recap
We have the full list of which players are becoming restricted free agents. - 2023 Offseason Trades
Eleven trades have been officially completed so far this offseason, with four more agreed upon and many more to come. - Outstanding Trade Exceptions
A number of teams have traded player exceptions available to take on salary without sending any salary back. - 2023 Offseason Preview Series
We took a closer look at all 30 teams’ cap situations and key offseason decisions. - Hoops Rumors Glossary
Notable Changes In New Collective Bargaining Agreement
Need a refresher on how sign-and-trades work, what it means to have “Early Bird rights” on a player, or how a team becomes hard-capped? We explain all in our glossary. Unfortunately, we haven’t had a chance yet to update all those glossary entries to account for the rule changes in the new CBA, but we have a separate breakdown of many of the most notable updates.
Van Vleet is probably going to be a Houston Rocket soon, unless the Raptors decide to outbid them. I’m thinking a 4 year $140M contract offer will do it.
Rockets have been saying they don’t want to go over 2 years and they would rather overpay. Today is going to be fun
Well they did go over 2 years and they overpaid big time for a small guard.
rockets are not going over 3 years for FVV
Do people on this site just comment without doing any research? There’s tons of evidence they are going to go big $ short term contracts, with 0 evidence they are willing to take on long term money
Research ?? I’d guess 70% + don’t even read past the title before they race down here
Chill out bro. It’s just basketball. We don’t get any of that money. We actually pay them out of our own pocket.
Of the top four FA’s, I think they are all staying home except for Van Vleet.