Offseason In Review: Portland Trail Blazers
2014/11/offseason-review-portland-blazers.htmlThe Blazers are missing one their top reserves from last season, as Mo Williams fled to the Timberwolves for a one-year, $3.75MM deal that was only slightly greater in value than the approximately $3.18MM that Portland was limited to giving him via Non-Bird rights. … Olshey nonetheless had a chance to get an up-close look at the point guard when the GM was with the Clippers and Blake was in his early days with the other Staples Center tenants.
Offseason In Review: Oklahoma City Thunder
2014/11/offseason-review-oklahoma-thunder.htmlRe-signed via Non-Bird rights. … OKC was without star guard Russell Westbrook for nearly half of the season and when the Thunder arrived in the playoffs, they staved off battle-ready teams in the Grizzlies and Clippers before succumbing to the Spurs in six games.
Offseason In Review: Minnesota Timberwolves
2014/11/offseason-review-minnesota-timberwolves.htmlRe-signed via Non-Bird rights. … But the ex-Sixer may be too weary from all those losing seasons in Philadelphia to go through the process again with the Wolves, and with an early termination option for next season in his possession, it's quite possible he'll end up having been merely a one-season rental.
Offseason In Review: Washington Wizards
2014/11/offseason-review-washington-wizards.htmlRe-signed via Bird rights. … The now 37-year-old clearly isn't the player he used to be, as he's coming off a career-low 13.5 points per game, but his arrival signals a potential turning point for the Wizards, one that nonetheless heaps additional pressure on the team to keep the momentum going.
Offseason In Review: Miami Heat
2014/11/offseason-review-miami-heat.htmlRe-signed via Early Bird rights. … Re-signed via Bird rights.
Offseason In Review: Atlanta Hawks
2014/11/offseason-review-atlanta-hawks.htmlRe-signed via Early Bird rights. … Re-signed via Early Bird rights.
Offseason In Review: New York Knicks
2014/11/offseason-review-york-knicks.htmlSigned via Bird rights. … Fifth year is early termination option.
Offseason In Review: Brooklyn Nets
2014/11/offseason-review-brooklyn-nets.htmlSigned via Non-Bird rights. … Holding only Livingston’s Non-Bird rights, the Nets couldn't do better than using their taxpayer’s mid-level exception, which would allow for a starting salary of $3.278MM and a total of nearly $10.3MM over the course of a three-year deal.
Offseason In Review: Boston Celtics
2014/11/offseason-boston-celtics.htmlSigned via Bird rights. … Alas, Kevin Love's early summer visit to the city turned out to be just that — a visit.
Dates That Teams Can Trade Offseason Signees
2014/10/trade-offseason-signees.htmlIf such a player did OK a trade, he would enter free agency the following summer as a Non-Bird rights player instead of a player with Early Bird or full Bird rights, thus drastically lowering his team's power to exceed the salary cap to re-sign him.
Extension Candidate: Brandon Knight
2014/10/extension-candidate-brandon.htmlThat threat is tempered somewhat because Milwaukee would have full Bird rights on Knight and only Early Bird rights on Marshall, but it still exists. … The team's desire to strike an extension clearly signals belief that Knight can handle the point, but the ability to negotiate from a position of strength no doubt fuels GM John Hammond's push for a deal.
Southwest Notes: Grizzlies, Rockets, Baynes
2014/09/southwest-grizzlies-rockets.htmlIn the same tweet, Pincus confirms his earlier report that the Spurs used part of their $5.035MM mid-level exception rather than Early Bird rights to sign Aron Baynes. … It's curious, since using Early Bird rights would have allowed the Spurs to preserve their mid-level, and thus greater flexibility for signing free agent target Ray Allen or someone else, so perhaps there are more details at play that have yet to be reported.
Suns Plan Long-Term Deal For Goran Dragic
2014/09/deal-goran-dragic.htmlThat should still leave plenty of room for a lucrative new deal with Dragic, though Phoenix has his Bird rights, as thus the power to exceed the cap to re-sign him, if the Suns deem it necessary. … The Pacers appeared to have interest in trading for him early this summer, and the Rockets have reportedly been considering a push to sign him in free agency next summer.
Spurs Re-Sign Aron Baynes
2014/09/spurs-sign-baynes.htmlSan Antonio likely used its Early Bird rights with Baynes to facilitate the deal and preserve its mid-level and biannual exceptions.
Bulls Re-Sign Nazr Mohammed
2014/09/bulls-nazr-mohammed.htmlThey renounced their Early Bird rights to Mohammed in July.
Aron Baynes Mulls Signing In Europe
2014/08/baynes-signing-europe.htmlSan Antonio doesn't lack flexibility, since the Spurs could give Baynes a starting salary of up to $5,631,505 using his Early Bird rights, and doing so wouldn't put them over the tax threshold. … Of course, Baynes wouldn't command nearly that much, having failed to average 10 minutes per game last season even on a Spurs team that employed one of the most egalitarian minutes distributions of all time.
Hornets Re-Sign Jannero Pargo
2014/07/hornets-jannero-pargo.htmlCharlotte had renounced its rights to the 34-year-old earlier this month as it cleared cap room, but while that move meant the team gave up its Early Bird rights to him, it didn't necessarily preclude a new deal.
Renounced Players: Thursday
2014/07/renounced-players-thursday-2.htmlWe may be no longer in the early stages of free agency, but teams continue to clear cap space by renouncing their Non-Bird, Early Bird or full Bird rights to their own free agents to remove their cap holds from the books. … As Coon explains, the old CBA allowed Bird rights of players not on a team the previous year to be used in sign-and-trades.
Bucks Sign Jerryd Bayless
2014/07/bucks-sign-jerryd-bayless.htmlThe Celtics had Early Bird rights on the combo guard that would have given them the means to make an offer equal to or greater than what he seems to have netted from the Bucks, but ultimately it looks like the sides couldn't reach a deal. … Bayless spent the bulk of last season with the Celtics after an early-January trade brought him from Memphis, and he quickly identified Boston as a place he wanted to stay for the long term.
Bulls Trade Anthony Randolph To Magic
2014/07/anthony-randolph-magic.htmlStill, it's a maneuver that could allow the Bulls to use their Early Bird rights to re-sign Kirk Hinrich and preserve their room exception. … The Magic receive second rounders in 2015 and 2016, cash considerations, and Randolph, while the Bulls receive the draft rights to Rakovic.
The Bulls And The Salary Cap
2014/07/bulls-salary-cap.htmlChicago's other free agent deal so far, a two-year, $5.6MM agreement with Kirk Hinrich, could be completed using Hinrich's Early Bird rights. … The Bulls were apparently pursuing a sign-and-trade for Gasol, but the Lakers renounced his rights to accommodate their trade for Jeremy Lin, which became official Sunday.
Carmelo Anthony To Re-Sign With Knicks
2014/07/carmelo-anthony-sign-knicks.htmlThe Bulls offered 'Melo the best opportunity to contend in the upcoming season, but were unable to offer nearly as much annual salary or as many years as New York, who exercised their Bird Rights to extend the winning bid to retain the All-Star. … TUESDAY, 7:00pm: Anthony's contract will be for $124MM over five years, sources tell Ian Begley of ESPNNewYork.com, who adds that Anthony will have an early termination option after the fourth season.
Suns Re-Sign P.J. Tucker
2014/07/suns-sign-tucker.htmlThe terms of the deal would allow Phoenix to utilize Tucker's Early Bird Rights, their Mid-level exception or their available cap room to bring back the forward, though there have yet to be reports of which option they'll choose. … Tucker, who is represented by the Arete Sports Agency, averaged 9.4 points and 6.5 rebounds in 30.7 minutes per game last season for a Suns team that nearly made the playoffs.
Renounced Players: Thursday
2014/07/renounced-players-thursday.htmlMany of the agreements signed during the July moratorium were contingent on teams clearing cap space to accommodate them, and to do so, teams must sometimes renounce their Non-Bird, Early Bird or full Bird rights to their own free agents to erase their cap holds from the books.
NBA Sets Salary Cap, Luxury Tax Line
2014/07/sets-salary-luxury.htmlThe Early Bird amount is $5.632MM, the memo also states, so players with Early Bird rights can re-sign for a starting salary of up to that amount or 175% of their previous salary, whichever is greater. … The same is true for the league's average salary, which applies to players with Early Bird rights.