2023/24 NBA Contract Extension Tracker
A number of 2023 free agents, such as Jerami Grant and Fred VanVleet, did very well for themselves on the open market this summer. However, the most lucrative contracts signed since the new league year began weren’t free agent deals at all — they were contract extensions.
Extensions, of course, don’t involve adding a new player to the roster. By extending a contract, a team ensures that a current player will remain locked up for multiple years to come. Although a contract extension may not change the club’s outlook on the court, it can have a major impact on that team’s salary cap situation for the next several seasons.
Rookie scale extensions are one form of contract extension. Former first-round picks who are entering the fourth and final year of their rookie deals are eligible to sign those up until the day before the 2023/24 regular season begins. It’s common for at least four or five players eligible for rookie scale extensions to sign them, and that number is often much higher — there were 11 rookie scale extensions signed in both 2021 and 2022.
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While they used to be rarer than rookie scale extensions, veteran extensions are happening more frequently these days. The league’s 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement expanded the rules for eligibility and created some additional incentives for star players to sign new deals before they reach free agency, and the 2023 CBA has further incentivized veteran extensions. During the 2022/23 league year, a total of 23 veteran extensions were signed, more than doubling the amount of rookie scale extensions completed during that same window.
The deadline for a veteran extension for a player who isn’t in the final year of his current contract is the day before the regular season tips off. However, a player eligible for a veteran extension who is on an expiring deal can sign a new contract throughout the league year, all the way up to June 30, the day before he becomes a free agent.
Listed below are the players who have finalized contract extensions so far in 2023/24. This list, which can be found on the right-hand sidebar under “Hoops Rumors Features” on our desktop site (or on the “Features” page in our mobile menu), will be kept up to date throughout the ’23/24 league year, with more extension details added as we learn them.
Note: Projected values for maximum-salary extensions are based on a $141,000,000 salary cap for 2024/25 and a 10% increase for 2025/26. Those contracts are based on a percentage of the cap, so their values would fluctuate depending on exactly where the ’24/25 and ’25/26 caps end up.
Rookie scale contract extensions:
- LaMelo Ball (Hornets): Five years, maximum salary (story). Projected value of $204,450,000. Projected value can increase to $245,340,000 if Ball meets Rose Rule criteria. Includes 15% trade kicker. Starts in 2024/25.
- Anthony Edwards (Timberwolves): Five years, maximum salary (story). Projected value of $204,450,000. Projected value can increase to $245,340,000 if Edwards meets Rose Rule criteria. Includes 15% trade kicker. Starts in 2024/25.
- Tyrese Haliburton (Pacers): Five years, maximum salary (story). Projected value of $204,450,000. Projected value can increase to $245,340,000 if Haliburton meets Rose Rule criteria. Includes 15% trade kicker. Starts in 2024/25.
- Desmond Bane (Grizzlies): Five years, $197,230,450 (story). Includes $8,669,550 in incentives. Includes 15% trade kicker. Starts in 2024/25.
- Devin Vassell (Spurs): Five years, $135,000,000 (story). Includes $11,000,000 in incentives. Starts in 2024/25.
- Jaden McDaniels (Timberwolves): Five years, $131,000,000 (story). Includes $5,000,000 in incentives. Starts in 2024/25.
- Onyeka Okongwu (Hawks): Four years, $62,000,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Isaiah Stewart (Pistons): Four years, $60,000,000 (story). Includes $4,000,000 in incentives. Includes fourth-year team option. Starts in 2024/25.
- Deni Avdija (Wizards): Four years, $55,000,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Josh Green (Mavericks): Three years, $41,000,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Cole Anthony (Magic): Three years, $39,100,000 (story). Includes third-year team option. Starts in 2024/25.
- Aaron Nesmith (Pacers): Three years, $33,000,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Zeke Nnaji (Nuggets): Four years, $32,000,001 (story). Includes fourth-year player option. Starts in 2024/25.
- Payton Pritchard (Celtics): Four years, $30,000,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
Veteran contract extensions:
- Jaylen Brown (Celtics): Five years, maximum salary (story). Projected value of $286,230,000 (super-max). Includes trade kicker (lesser of 7% or $7,000,000). Starts in 2024/25.
- Giannis Antetokounmpo (Bucks): Three years, maximum salary (story). Third-year player option. Projected value of $175,883,400. Starts in 2025/26.
- Anthony Davis (Lakers): Three years, maximum salary (story). Third-year player option. Projected value of $175,883,400. Starts in 2025/26.
- Domantas Sabonis (Kings): Four years, $175,616,000 (story). Includes renegotiation (2023/24 salary increased by $8,600,000 to $28,000,000). $184,216,000 in total new money. Includes $10,400,000 in incentives (plus $2,600,000 in existing incentives in 2023/24). Extension starts in 2024/25.
- Kawhi Leonard (Clippers): Three years, $149,650,000 (story). Includes 15% trade kicker. Starts in 2024/25.
- Jrue Holiday (Celtics): Four years, $134,400,000 (story). Includes fourth-year player option. Starts in 2024/25.
- Dejounte Murray (Hawks): Four years, $111,102,208 (story). Includes $9,015,993 in incentives. Includes fourth-year player option. Includes 15% trade kicker. Starts in 2024/25.
- Josh Hart (Knicks): Four years, $80,915,820 (story). Includes fourth-year team option. Starts in 2024/25.
- Grayson Allen (Suns): Four years, $70,000,000 (story). Includes fourth-year player option. Starts in 2024/25.
- Kristaps Porzingis (Celtics): Two years, $60,000,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Jarred Vanderbilt (Lakers): Four years, $48,000,000 (story). Includes fourth-year player option. Starts in 2024/25.
- Zach Collins (Spurs): Two years, $34,821,696 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Jordan Clarkson (Jazz): Two years, $28,378,291 (story). Includes renegotiation (2023/24 salary increased by $9,227,629 to $23,487,629). $37,605,920 in total new money. Includes $1,134,081 in incentives. Extension starts in 2024/25.
- Kelly Olynyk (Raptors): Two years, $26,250,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Richaun Holmes (Wizards): Two years, $25,929,058 (story). Second year partially guaranteed ($250K). Starts in 2024/25.
- Mike Conley (Timberwolves): Two years, $20,750,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
- Miles McBride (Knicks): Three years, $13,000,000 (story). Starts in 2024/25.
Note: Multiple veterans, including Nikola Vucevic (Bulls), Naz Reid (Timberwolves) and Harrison Barnes (Kings), signed extensions less than a week before the 2023/24 league year began. Those deals are listed in our 2022/23 extension tracker.
More Contract Details: White, Lyles, A. Holiday, Draymond, D-Lo, More
Coby White‘s new contract with the Bulls and Trey Lyles‘ new contract with the Kings both include unlikely incentives that could increase the value of those deals, Hoops Rumors has learned.
White’s three-year pact is guaranteed to be worth at least $36MM and has $1.3MM in annual incentives that could push the guard’s earnings up to $40MM in total. As for Lyles, he’ll make $8MM guaranteed salaries in each season of his two-year deal with Sacramento and could earn another $1.2MM in bonuses, which would increase the overall value of the contract to $18.4MM ($9.2MM per year).
Here are a few more details worth noting on several recently signed contracts:
- Aaron Holiday‘s one-year, minimum-salary contract with the Rockets is only partially guaranteed. Holiday is assured of about $1.05MM and would receive his full $2.35MM salary if he remains under contract through at least January 7.
- Draymond Green‘s four-year, $100MM contract with the Warriors includes a 15% trade kicker, while Jevon Carter‘s three-year, $19.5MM deal with the Bulls has a third-year player option.
- Only the first season of Julian Champagnie‘s new four-year, $12MM contract with the Spurs is guaranteed. For each of the following three years, he’ll have to remain under contract beyond August 1 to guarantee his salary for that season.
- A player who re-signs with his previous team on a one-year deal (or a two-year deal with a second-year option) has the right to veto a trade, since he’d lose his Bird (or Early Bird) rights if he’s dealt. However, the new Collective Bargaining Agreement allows a player to waive that right to veto a trade when he signs that sort of contract, and Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell became the first player to do so, per Keith Smith of Spotrac (Twitter link). Alex Len also waived his right to veto a trade as part of his new one-year deal with the Kings, Hoops Rumors has learned.
Hawks Sign Dejounte Murray To Four-Year Extension
JULY 9: The signing is official, according to a team press release.
“DJ is someone we want to continue to build with. He’s a dynamic talent with the heart of a leader. He leads by example, is an unselfish teammate, and truly cares about winning,” Hawks GM Landry Fields said.
JULY 7: Murray’s deal will include a fourth-year player option, per Shams Charania of The Athletic.
JULY 6: The Hawks and Dejounte Murray are finalizing an agreement on a four-year contract extension, league sources tell Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report and TNT (Twitter link).
Murray, who is on an expiring contract, will earn a base salary of approximately $17.7MM in 2023/24, with $500K in likely incentives and another $1MM in unlikely incentives. The NBA’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement allows a first-year raise of up to 140% of the player’s previous salary in the first year of an extension, and it sounds like Murray will receive that maximum raise.
Based on a 40% first-year increase, Murray’s new deal would have a base value of approximately $111MM, with nearly $10MM in additional incentives. If he achieves all his bonuses, the four-year contract would max out at around $120.5MM.
There was a sense that Murray might wait until he reached unrestricted free agency in 2024 to sign a new deal, since he’ll be eligible for a far bigger payday at that time. The fact that he’s willing to lock in an extra four years now is a big win for the Hawks, who gave up three first-round picks (two unprotected) and a pick swap to acquire the guard from the Spurs last offseason.
Reports at the time of the trade suggested that San Antonio was concerned about its ability to extend Murray prior to free agency. Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports indicated on Wednesday that the Hawks were increasingly optimistic about their own chances of working out a new deal.
In his first year in Atlanta, Murray averaged 20.5 points, 6.1 assists, and 5.3 rebounds in 36.4 minutes per game across 74 contests. He shot a career-best 46.4% from the field, including 34.4% on three-pointers, and provided his usual solid perimeter defense alongside Trae Young in the Hawks’ backcourt.
There were rumors earlier in the offseason that the Hawks were willing to discuss trading anyone except Young, but a new extension for Murray will officially take him off the trade market for the rest of 2023. Never considered a legitimate candidate to be moved this summer, the 26-year-old will become ineligible to be dealt for six months once he signs his new extension.
Patrick Beverley Signs One-Year Deal With Sixers
JULY 9: The signing is official, the Sixers announced (via Twitter).
JULY 1: Free agent point guard Patrick Beverley is joining the Sixers. The news was broken by Beverley himself, via his podcast’s Twitter account, with Kyle Neubeck of PhillyVoice.com reporting (via Twitter) that it’ll be a fully guaranteed one-year, minimum-salary deal.
A former second-round pick out of Arkansas, Beverley has enjoyed a productive 11-year career in the NBA by thriving as a perimeter defender and solid three-point shooter (.373 PT%).
While his shooting has been up and down in recent years (33.9% since the start of the 2021/22 season), Beverley still has a reputation as a terrific veteran leader and a strong defender. After signing with Chicago on the buyout market in February, he helped stabilize the Bulls’ point guard rotation and drew praise from his teammates for his presence in the locker room.
Splitting his 2022/23 season between the Bulls and Lakers, the 6’1″ vet averaged a modest 6.2 PPG on .400/.335/.723 splits, 3.7 RPG, 2.9 APG and 0.9 SPG, across 67 contests. Until his Chicago stint, he had qualified for the playoffs in all of his first 10 NBA seasons.
Though the upper echelon of the Sixers’ roster is currently very much in flux with starting guard James Harden having requested a trade out of town earlier this week, Beverley seems likely to be a stabilizing energy bench piece. He can operate as a supplemental point-of-attack defender who remains a threat on the perimeter. Philadelphia recently lost another rotation guard, Shake Milton, who inked a two-year deal to join the Timberwolves.
As Kyle Neubeck of PhillyVoice.com notes, Beverley will join several former Rockets teammates in Philadelphia. Team president Daryl Morey served as the head man in Houston when Beverley and Harden were Rockets. Sixers power forward P.J. Tucker, wing Danuel House, and center Montrezl Harrell were also rostered with both squads.
Beverley may no longer be the three-time All-Defensive talent he was in his prime, but even during his age-35 season, he still seems very capable of being a two-way contributor on a playoff club.
Alex Kirschenbaum contributed to this post.
Anthony Edwards Signs Five-Year Max Extension With Timberwolves
JULY 8: The extension is official, the Wolves confirmed on Twitter (video link).
JULY 3: The Timberwolves and rising star Anthony Edwards have reached an agreement on a five-year, designated rookie extension that will pay him the maximum salary, agents Bill Duffy and Joe Branch tell Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link).
Wojnarowski reports that the deal can be worth up to $260MM, though that would hinge on Edwards making an All-NBA team in 2024 and the salary cap rising by the maximum 10% for the 2024/25 league year. With a 10% cap increase and no All-NBA spot for Edwards, the five-year extension would be worth $217MM.
It will be a straight five-year contract with no player or team option, reports Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic (Twitter link).
“I’m humbled, appreciative and excited to remain in Minnesota as a part of this incredible Timberwolves organization,” Edwards said in a statement to Wojnarowski (Twitter link). “It’s amazing to see where hard work can take you.”
The No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 draft, Edwards has increased his scoring average and efficiency in each of his NBA seasons to date. He averaged 24.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, 4.4 assists, and 1.6 steals with a .459/.369/.756 shooting line in 79 games (36.0 MPG) in 2022/23, earning his first All-Star nod.
Even though the Wolves also have Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert on maximum-salary contracts, there was a strong belief entering this offseason that Edwards, the player the franchise will likely build around for years to come, would get a max deal of his own. He looks poised to officially sign it as soon as he becomes eligible to do so later this week.
Edwards will play one more season on his rookie scale contract, which will pay him in $13.5MM in 2023/24, before he receives a massive raise. If the cap increases by 10% to $149.6MM in ’24/25 and Edwards makes an All-NBA team, he, Towns, and Gobert would earn a combined $141MM that season, and that number would only increase further in ’25/26.
While those three max deals – and a potential extension for Jaden McDaniels – figure to hamper the Timberwolves’ financial flexibility going forward, any eventual moves made to address that issue are more likely to involve Towns or Gobert than Edwards.
Edwards is the third 2020 first-rounder to agree to a “Rose Rule” rookie scale extension that can start at up to 30% of the cap instead of 25%. Tyrese Haliburton of the Pacers and LaMelo Ball of the Hornets will also reportedly sign those deals, while Desmond Bane of the Grizzlies is getting a rookie scale extension worth the standard 25% max.
Knicks Sign Donte DiVincenzo To Four-Year Deal
JULY 8: The DiVincenzo signing is officially, the Knicks announced (via Twitter). “We are excited to add Donte to the Knicks family and view him as a perfect fit to the culture we continue to establish,” said team president Leon Rose. “Winning is in his DNA and he will provide us with versatility, three-point shooting and defensive tenacity.”
JULY 1: Donte DiVincenzo is headed to New York, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link), who hears from agent Jason Glushon that DiVincenzo has agreed to sign a four-year, $50MM contract with the Knicks. The deal won’t include any options, per Fred Katz of The Athletic (Twitter link).
The Knicks are over the cap, so they’ll sign DiVincenzo using the mid-level exception. The deal will reunite the former Villanova Wildcat with his college teammates Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart.
DiVincenzo became a free agent this week after deciding not to pick up a $4.7MM player option to remain in Golden State. The Warriors didn’t have the ability to make a competitive offer for him due to CBA restrictions, so he became one of the most popular mid-level targets on the open market.
The 26-year-old appeared in a career-high 72 games, including 36 starts, in 2022/23 after signing with the Warriors. He averaged 9.4 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.3 steals in 26.3 minutes per game. The 6’4″ guard, who made a career-best 39.7% of his 3-point attempts, also played in 13 postseason games this spring.
DiVincenzo will be another option on the wing for head coach Tom Thibodeau and the Knicks, who are finalizing a deal to trade Obi Toppin to Indiana. That move will help open up additional room below the luxury tax, allowing New York to give more of its mid-level to DiVincenzo.
According to Bobby Marks of ESPN (Twitter link), after accounting for DiVincenzo, New York’s team salary projects to be about $4MM below the tax line with 14 players under contract. As a result of using the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, the Knicks will be hard-capped at the $172.3MM tax apron in 2023/24.
DiVincenzo was the No. 20 player on our list of 2023’s top 50 free agents.
Rockets Acquire Dillon Brooks In Five-Team Deal
JULY 8: The complex five-team trade that sends Brooks to Houston has been finalized, the Rockets announced in a press release The breakdown of the deal, which combined several separate trade agreements, is as follows:
- Rockets acquire Brooks (via sign-and-trade), the Clippers’ 2026 second-round pick, the Grizzlies’ 2027 second-round pick (from Clippers), and the draft rights to Alpha Kaba (from Hawks).
- Hawks acquire Usman Garuba, TyTy Washington, the Timberwolves’ 2025 second-round pick (from Rockets), the Rockets’ 2028 second-round pick, and cash (from Thunder).
- Grizzlies acquire Josh Christopher.
- Thunder acquire Patty Mills, a 2024 second-round pick (from Rockets), the Rockets’ 2029 second-round pick, and the Rockets’ 2030 second-round pick.
- Clippers acquire Kenyon Martin Jr.
In a separate deal, Oklahoma City will ship Mills to Atlanta in exchange for Garuba, Washington, Rudy Gay and a second-round pick.
6:04pm: The Rockets will acquire Brooks via sign-and-trade, generating a trade exception for the Grizzlies, Wojnarowski confirms (via Twitter).
Sources tell Kelly Iko of The Athletic (Twitter link) that Houston is trading Josh Christopher to Memphis. Although Iko doesn’t specify it will be part of a Brooks sign-and-trade, that seems logical.
The Grizzlies’ trade exception for Brooks would be $11.4MM due to base year compensation rules, notes Yossi Gozlan of HoopsHype (Twitter link). If Christopher heads to Memphis in the deal, that TPE would shrink to $8.9MM, Gozlan adds.
5:20pm: The Rockets and Brooks have agreed to a four-year deal worth $80MM, agent Mike George tells Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link).
The deal will have a descending structure, tweets Wojnarowski. It will be fully guaranteed, with no player or team option, per Kelly Iko of The Athletic (Twitter link).
As with VanVleet, Houston’s offer in order to secure a commitment ended up being for more years and more money than initially anticipated.
JULY 1, 4:35pm: The Rockets are close to reaching a contract agreement with unrestricted free agent Dillon Brooks, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
While Houston has the cap room necessary to sign Brooks outright, the team has been engaged in trade talks around the league, according to Charania, who says a sign-and-trade with the Grizzlies is a possibility if the Rockets reach a deal with the veteran forward.
Brooks was frequently linked to the Rockets in the days leading up to free agency. One report indicated that Houston was preparing to offer him a deal in the range of $14-16MM annually, while another stated the team had a meeting lined up for Friday or Saturday with the 27-year-old.
Brooks is a talented perimeter defender who earned All-Defensive Second Team honors this spring, but he has become an increasingly erratic shooter, making a career-worst 39.6% of his field goal attempts in 2022/23. His three-point percentage dipped to 32.1% on 5.6 attempts per game during the last two seasons after he converted 35.3% of 4.5 threes per game in his first four seasons, all with the Grizzlies.
On top of his offensive struggles, Brooks’ outsized personality and aggressive playing style have gotten him into trouble both on the court and in interviews off it. He received three one-game suspensions this season, once for an on-court altercation with Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell and twice for accumulating so many technical fouls.
Brooks ultimately wore out his welcome in Memphis, with a report after the season indicating that the Grizzlies didn’t plan to bring him back “under any circumstances.” His performance during the team’s first-round loss to the Lakers was reportedly considered to be a breaking point. Brooks referred to Lakers star LeBron James as “old” following Memphis’ Game 2 win, suggesting the NBA’s all-time leading scorer was well past his prime.
He was then ejected from Game 3 for hitting James in the groin, surrendered a pair of key baskets to LeBron in a Game 4 loss, and was eventually fined $25K for declining to speak to reporters after three games of the series (all losses). Offensively, Brooks shot just 31.2% from the field and 23.8% on three-pointers across six playoff games.
A change of scenery could benefit Brooks, and the Rockets have reportedly been prioritizing tough, defensive-minded veterans under new head coach Ime Udoka. Houston has reached an agreement with Fred VanVleet and was said to be aggressive in its pursuit of Defensive Player of the Year runner-up Brook Lopez, who ultimately decided to remain in Milwaukee.
2023/24 NBA Two-Way Contract Tracker
Two-way contracts allow NBA teams to carry three extra players in addition to the 15 on their regular season roster. These players generally bounce back and forth between the NBA and G League, but remain under team control and can’t be poached by rival franchises.
First introduced in 2017, two-way deals have undergone some rule changes in recent years, and the NBA’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement has updated them further. Here are some key points to remember:
- Teams can now carry three players on two-way contracts, rather than two.
- Two-way players are eligible to be active for up to 50 of their team’s 82 regular season games. If a team isn’t carrying a full 15-man roster, its two-way players can only be active for a combined 90 games.
- Players on two-way contracts will earn $559,782 in 2023/24, half of the rookie minimum.
You can check out our glossary entry to learn more about two-way contracts.
NBA teams have begun to fill in their two-way slots for the 2023/24 league year, so we’ll track all those deals in the space below. Some two-way players from 2022/23 inked two-year contracts and remain under contract for this season, while others have been newly signed.
If a two-way signing has been reported by a trusted source but isn’t yet official, we’ll list it in italics and link to the report, updating the info as necessary. Players who are in the first year of two-way contracts that cover two years (the maximum length), will be noted with an asterisk (*) once that info is confirmed.
This tracker will continue to be updated throughout the 2023/24 league year, and can be found anytime in the “Hoops Rumors Features” menu on the right-hand sidebar of our desktop site, or in the “Features” menu on our mobile site.
Here are 2023/24’s two-way players:
Updated 4-23-24
Atlanta Hawks
- Seth Lundy, G/F
- Vit Krejci, G
- Dylan Windler, G/F
Boston Celtics
- JD Davison, G
- Drew Peterson, F
- Empty
Brooklyn Nets
- Keon Johnson, G
- Jaylen Martin, G/F *
- Jacob Gilyard, G
Charlotte Hornets
- Amari Bailey, G
- Leaky Black, F *
- Marques Bolden, C *
Chicago Bulls
- Adama Sanogo, F
- Henri Drell, G/F
- Andrew Funk, G *
Cleveland Cavaliers
- Isaiah Mobley, F
- Emoni Bates, F
- Pete Nance, F
Dallas Mavericks
- Greg Brown, F
- Brandon Williams, G
- Alex Fudge, F *
Denver Nuggets
- Collin Gillespie, G
- Braxton Key, F
- Jay Huff, C
Detroit Pistons
- Jared Rhoden, G
- Buddy Boeheim, G/F *
- Tosan Evbuomwan, F *
Golden State Warriors
- Jerome Robinson, G
- Pat Spencer, G *
- Empty
Houston Rockets
- Jermaine Samuels, F
- Jeenathan Williams, G/F
- Nate Hinton, G/F
Indiana Pacers
- Oscar Tshiebwe, C
- Isaiah Wong, G
- Quenton Jackson, G
Los Angeles Clippers
- Moussa Diabate, C
- Jordan Miller, F *
- Xavier Moon, G/F
Los Angeles Lakers
- Colin Castleton, F/C
- Skylar Mays, G
- Harry Giles, C
Memphis Grizzlies
- Scotty Pippen Jr., G *
- Trey Jemison, C *
- Jordan Goodwin, G
Miami Heat
- Jamal Cain, F
- Cole Swider, F
- Alondes Williams, G
Milwaukee Bucks
- TyTy Washington Jr., G
- Ryan Rollins, G *
- Jaylin Galloway, G/F *
Minnesota Timberwolves
- Jaylen Clark, G *
- Daishen Nix, G
- Empty
New Orleans Pelicans
- Dereon Seabron, G
- Malcolm Hill, G/F *
- Empty
New York Knicks
Oklahoma City Thunder
- Keyontae Johnson, G/F
- Olivier Sarr, C
- Adam Flagler, G *
Orlando Magic
- Kevon Harris, G
- Admiral Schofield, F
- Trevelin Queen, G
Philadelphia 76ers
- Terquavion Smith, G
- Empty
- Empty
Phoenix Suns
- Saben Lee, G
- Udoka Azubuike, C
- Ish Wainright, F
Portland Trail Blazers
- Justin Minaya, F
- Ibou Badji, C
- Ashton Hagans, G
Sacramento Kings
- Jalen Slawson, F
- Jordan Ford, G
- Mason Jones, G *
San Antonio Spurs
- David Duke, G
- Jamaree Bouyea, G *
- RaiQuan Gray, F/C *
Toronto Raptors
- D.J. Carton, G *
- Mouhamadou Gueye, F *
- Empty
Utah Jazz
- Micah Potter, C
- Johnny Juzang, G
- Jason Preston, G *
Washington Wizards
- Jules Bernard, G
- Justin Champagnie, G/F *
- Empty
Kings Waive PJ Dozier
The Kings have waived guard PJ Dozier, the team announced today in a press release.
The move doesn’t come as a real surprise, given that Dozier played a limited role for Sacramento last season and would have had his $2.41MM salary for 2023/24 become guaranteed if he remained under contract beyond Monday, July 10. By cutting him today, the club won’t be on the hook for any of that money.
Dozier, 26, signed a pair of 10-day contracts with the Kings in January before reaching a rest-of-season deal with the team in February. He appeared in 16 games, averaging 1.4 points and 0.9 rebounds in just 4.9 minutes per night.
With Dozier off the roster, the Kings now have 13 players on standard contracts (once Sasha Vezenkov and Alex Len officially sign) and a pair on two-way deals, so they’re presumably not done making moves.
Suns Frontrunners To Sign Bol Bol
The Suns are the favorites to sign Bol Bol, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link), who says rival teams are expecting the free agent big man to land in Phoenix.
A former second-round pick, Bol hit waivers on Tuesday, with Orlando opting to move on from him before his salary for 2023/24 became guaranteed. He cleared waivers on Thursday and became a free agent, allowing him to join any team.
Bol’s unique skill set for his slender 7’2″ frame – including an ability to handle the ball – has long intrigued teams and fans, but he was limited to 53 games in Denver during his first three years in the NBA due to injuries. He enjoyed his best season in 2022/23, staying on the floor for 70 games and averaging 9.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks in 21.5 minutes per night.
While Bol’s overall numbers were solid, it was a tale of two seasons for the former second-round pick. He put up 11.9 PPG, 6.8 RPG, and 1.6 BPG with an impressive .584/.361/.740 shooting line in his first 41 appearances. In his final 29 games, his playing time and shooting efficiency dropped off, as he scored double-digit points just three times and had averages of 5.1 PPG, 4.3 RPG, and 0.7 BPG on .447/.098/.806 shooting.
Once Josh Okogie‘s deal is official, Phoenix will have 15 players on standard contracts, not counting Bol. However, Jordan Goodwin only has a small partial guarantee, while Ish Wainright is on a non-guaranteed deal, so the team has some roster flexibility. The club would only be able to offer Bol a minimum-salary contract.
The Suns’ interest in Bol was previously reported by both Marc Stein and John Gambadoro.