The Nets still have roughly $16MM in cap space left, according to New York Post’s Brian Lewis, and could still explore ways to add more draft assets from a team looking to dump salary. The Nets have already absorbed the contracts of Michael Porter Jr., Terance Mann and Haywood Highsmith while picking up a 2025 first-round pick (Drake Powell was taken in that spot), the Nuggets’ unprotected 2032 first-round pick and the Heat’s 2032 second-rounder. They are actively looking for more of those opportunities, Lewis reports.
Here’s more from the Eastern Conference:
- Now that the Celtics ownership has changed hands, will there be a change of venue? The Boston Globe’s Shirley Leung explores that possibility, noting that the new owners are keeping their options open. Currently, the Celtics share TD Garden with the NHL Bruins and rent from Garden owner Delaware North, Leung points out. It might more sense for the franchise to play in a new basketball arena flanked by real estate development in the surrounding area.
- The Chicago Sun-Times’ Joe Cowley has offered plenty of criticism regarding the Bulls’ front office in recent years. However, Cowley believes that there are other front offices more dysfunctional that the one led by executive VP Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley, placing the Pelicans, Knicks and Suns in that category.
- Nikola Jovic suffered what appeared to be a minor hand injury in Serbia’s 82-60 EuroBasket victory over the Czech Republic, Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel tweets. The Heat forward had 10 points and six rebounds for Serbia, which has already had clinched a spot in the round of 16.
BRING OUT YOUR BUSTS
BRING OUT YOUR BUSTS
Totally wrong about grouping the Knicks front office with the Pelicans and Suns. What about the Kings, Trailblazers, Raptors, Wizards, 76ers, Nets???
Yea nets have to be in there, taking all 5 FRPs was braindead
Raptors have been relevant so what are you on about? To mention raps alongside kings, blazers, wiz, sixers, nets? Really??? You all be obsessed with raptors more than their fans.
To be fair, those contracts of IQ and Barrett are looking terrible. They built a very mids team but yea, i agree they still shouldn’t be lumped in with them and neither should the Knicks at this point. Kings, Wiz, Suns, Hornets, Bulls have been on another level of terrible ownership/GMing for way longer that it’s a joke.
IQ is definitely overpaid. Absolutely.
This Crowley article should go down as one of the worst pieces of sports journalism I have ever read. What trash, an insult to any fan with an iota of common senses.
Yeah it’s bad.
A) bulls are worse off than pels and suns. Pelicans have some good young pieces and at least they have direction . & suns have booker, that alone is sm better than everything bulls have
B) while comforting to know there’s other fanbases in hell (kings and raptors, welcome aboard), that should by no means exonerate the idiots in Chicago. Beyond stupid
Side note – why exactly is Nico Harrison, per Crowley, ‘getting the last laugh?’ Sure Flagg is nice but is it worth torpedoing a team 3 games from a chip ? Would Lakers trade Luka back for Flagg + AD ? Don’t think so…
The Lakers are also getting the version of Luka that the Mavericks were trying to convince him to become for 100 million dollars less.
I don’t understand how so many people refuse to acknowledge that Luka created this problem by refusing to make being the best player he could be his number one priority.
But still expected the team to invest over 300 million in him.
The guy was already missing 20 percent of his teams games and he wasn’t even 27 years old.
If Luka had come back to Dallas last October like he’s coming back to LA this year, he would still be a Maverick with a 350 million dollar extension.
True, but with someone of Luka’s talent, if I’m the Mavs I’m taking the risk that he’ll figure his sht out eventually. I mean they made the finals w him not even in shape … and if I somehow did trade him, I’d certainly hope to get more than the damaged goods Nico brought back .
I can agree with both of those points. I would have have probably kept him and hoped for the best.
I just don’t like how the media and fans refuse to hold Luka accountable for his poor professionalism during his career in Dallas.
Losing in the finals didn’t even stir enough competitive fire in him to come back ready to work to win it all.
Instead, he came back in the worst shape of his career.
Only after he got traded did he decide to get serious about getting in shape. IMO, that shows he is a selfish, me first individual, not team goals oriented.
Well the Bulls FO is not too bright. But still being slammed by a complete moron like Cowley now that’s really got to hurt. being called bad by the worst writer on the planet has to sting.
Yea the Bulls have lacked direction ever since they lost Derrick Rose. They have a few nice pieces that didn’t fit well with each other and then held onto them way too long and sold them for pennies on the dollar. Same will happen with Colby White eventually. Solid player but they’ll just tank his value and likely give him a terrible contract.
Pelicans, Knicks, Suns are all better off than the Bulls.
Pelicans have a NEW FO ….
Suns have upgraded, are deeper, younger after KD trade.
Knicks have had their best rebuild since Patrick Ewing. And last year was the FIRST year their core has played together.
The Bulls resigned their loser coach. Their offense has changed THREE times in last three years. They have absolutely no clue which direction they want to go. They are The Poster Team of disfunction. All their picks under Donovan. They have tried to trade. And now they are about to lose Giddey. Their PG of the NO Future. Clueless team even worse beat writer.