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Nets Rescind Kessler Edwards’ QO, Making Him UFA

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While the Nets will no longer have the ability to unilaterally match any offer Edwards receives, they still hold his Non-Bird rights and could re-sign him.

Pacers Re-Sign Jalen Smith

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There was a sense that Smith may be playing himself out of the Pacers' price range -- even though they hold his Bird rights, they were prohibited from offering him a starting salary higher than $4.67MM, the amount of his declined option.

Bulls Re-Sign Derrick Jones To Two-Year Deal

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Chicago held Jones' Early Bird rights, but a deal completed using the Early Bird exception can't include a second-year option, so the team is likely renouncing its Early Bird rights and making Jones a Non-Bird free agent.

Knicks Sign Mitchell Robinson To Four-Year Contract

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Plus, his minimum-salary cap hold gives New York the flexibility to use up its cap room before going over the cap to re-sign him using his Bird rights.

NBA Minimum Salaries For 2022/23

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Technically, a minimum-salary contract could cover five years for a player with full Bird rights, but in actuality, that never happens.

Salary Cap, Tax Line Set For 2022/23 NBA Season

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The Early Bird exception is the maximum amount a team can offer a player it intends to re-sign using his Early Bird rights. … Bobby Portis (Bucks) and Nicolas Batum (Clippers) are among the players who have already agreed to Early Bird deals.

Nets Re-Sign Nic Claxton, Patty Mills

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Brooklyn had Claxton's Bird Rights and won't need to use another cap exception to sign him. … Mills' deal appears to be the maximum amount he can receive on a Non-Bird deal, as Yossi Gozlan of HoopsHype tweets.

Bucks Re-Sign Joe Ingles, Wesley Matthews, Jevon Carter

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That figure suggests Carter may be getting slightly above the veteran's minimum using his Non-Bird rights.

Raptors Sign Thaddeus Young To Two-Year Extension

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Toronto held Young's Bird rights after acquiring him from San Antonio at February's trade deadline, giving the Raptors the ability to exceed the salary cap to retain him.

Heat Re-Sign Dewayne Dedmon

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Miami had Oladipo's Bird rights and Dedmon's Early Bird rights, so the team won't have to use its mid-level or bi-annual exception to complete the deals.

Raptors Re-Sign Chris Boucher To Three-Year Deal

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Toronto is using Boucher's Bird rights to re-sign him to a deal worth a little more than the full mid-level exception.

Bucks Re-Sign Bobby Portis To Four-Year Contract

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That's the maximum amount that the Bucks could have given Portis using his Early Bird rights after he turned down his $4.6MM player option earlier this week.

Jalen Brunson Signs Four-Year Contract With Knicks

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They held his Bird Rights, giving them the ability to offer more years (five) and money than other teams, but reportedly were only willing to go as high as $106MM over five years, which is obviously considerably less annually than the Knicks are offering.

Malik Monk Signs Two-Year Contract With Kings

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only holds Non-Bird rights on Monk and will be limited to a contract that starts at the taxpayer mid-level exception, which is projected to be $6.5MM next season.

2022 NBA Free Agency Primer

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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.

Latest On Jalen Brunson

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$110MM over four) if the Mavs are willing to go that high using his Bird Rights.

Bobby Portis To Decline Option With Bucks

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The Bucks have Early Bird rights on Portis and can pay him up to $49MM over four seasons, according to Bobby Marks of ESPN (Twitter link). … Marks adds that a new Early Bird contract must cover at least two seasons with no options in the second year.

Magic Emerge As Leading Suitor For Isaiah Hartenstein

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While the Clippers would presumably like to bring back Hartenstein, their ability to offer him a raise on last season's minimum-salary contract will be extremely limited, since they only hold his Non-Bird rights are are rumored to be using their taxpayer mid-level exception on John Wall.

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