Why Draymond Green Didn’t Push For No-Trade Clause

After declining his $27.7MM player option to give the Warriors a chance at landing a big-name free agent, which ultimately did not come to fruition, Draymond Green recently signed a one-year deal worth the same amount. Green was eligible to receive a no-trade clause in this deal, as the rule stipulates a player must have […]

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Nuggets, Lonnie Walker IV Agree To One-Year Deal

The Nuggets have agreed to a one-year deal worth $3.3MM with free agent wing Lonnie Walker IV, Shams Charania reports for ESPN (via Twitter). Walker is an athletic, 6’4″ shooting guard who will help bolster Denver’s backcourt depth after they lost Tim Hardaway Jr. and Jalen Pickett this summer. The 27-year-old out of the University […]

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Clippers To Waive Sean Pedulla

The Clippers are waiving point guard Sean Pedulla, Michael Scotto reports for HoopsHype (Twitter link). The 23-year-old was on a two-way deal that he signed in February. Pedulla played seven games for the Clippers last season, going 5-for-15 for 13 points in 31 total minutes. He spent the majority of his time with the team’s […]

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Suns, Dillon Brooks Agree To Three-Year Extension

The Suns have signed veteran forward Dillon Brooks to a three-year extension worth $73MM, ESPN’s Shams Charania reports (via Twitter). Brooks had a career scoring season last year, his first with the club after coming over from the Rockets in the Kevin Durant trade. He averaged 20.2 points on 17.1 shots per game, both career […]

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Heat Notes: LaVine, Targets, Spoelstra, Johnson

The Heat‘s desire to add a high-volume shooter to replace the recently departed Tyler Herro and Norman Powell and bolster the offense around the talented duo of Bam Adebayo and Giannis Antetokounmpo is no secret, nor is their scant means of acquiring said player. There was hope that the matter could be neatly resolved if […]

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Celtics Sign Dillon Mitchell To Two-Way Deal

The Celtics have signed rookie forward Dillon Mitchell to a two-way contract, the team announced on Wednesday (Twitter link). The extremely athletic 6’8″ forward was the 40th pick in the 2026 Draft and proceeded to average 13 points, 2.7 steals, and 1.3 blocks in 26.0 minutes per game for the Celtics in Summer League while […]

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Rockets Waive JD Davison

The Rockets have waived guard JD Davison, the team announced today. Houston picked up its 2026/27 team option on Davison in June, but his $2,584,539 salary remained entirely non-guaranteed even after that option was exercised. As a result, the Rockets won’t carry any dead money on their cap for Davison, whether or not he’s claimed […]

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Sixers Officially Sign Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

The Sixers have made it official with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, announcing today in a press release that they’ve signed the veteran wing to a contract. It was first reported nearly two weeks ago that Caldwell-Pope was being bought out by Memphis and would sign with Philadelphia after clearing waivers. The 33-year-old gave up $3,876,529 in his […]

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Early NBA Maximum Salary Projections For 2027/28

Although a number of big-money free agent contracts were completed earlier this summer, the two most lucrative deals signed by players so far in 2026/27 have been contract extensions. Both of those extensions have been maximum-salary deals. [RELATED: 2026/27 NBA Contract Extension Tracker] Because those extensions won’t go into effect until the 2027/28 season and […]

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Hoops Rumors Glossary: Exhibit 9 Contract

When NBA teams are in the process of filling out their training camp rosters, the Exhibit 10 is the type of contract mentioned most frequently on Hoops Rumors. An Exhibit 10 contract can be converted into a two-way deal or puts a player in line to earn a bonus if he’s waived and then joins […]

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Atlantic Notes: Brown, Wagner, Nets, Martin

Publicly addressing the Sixers‘ signing of LeBron James for the first time during a Twitch stream on Monday, Jaylen Brown expressed excitement about the prospect of teaming up with one of the NBA’s all-time greats, as James Jackson of The Athletic relays. “What an opportunity that is,” Brown said. “Like, obviously, everybody (is) gonna say […]

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2027 NBA Trade Deadline Set For February 11

The NBA’s trade deadline for the 2026/27 season will land on Thursday, February 11 at 3:00 pm Eastern time, according to the league’s official list of key upcoming dates (hat tip to Yossi Gozlan of The Third Apron). With the exception of the 2020/21 NBA league year, which started later than usual due to COVID, […]

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Jalen Pickett, Clippers Agree To Two-Way Deal

The Clippers and free agent guard Jalen Pickett have reached an agreement on a two-way contract, league sources tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link). Pickett, 26, spent the past three seasons in Denver after being selected with the 32nd overall pick in the 2023 draft. The former Penn State standout barely played as a […]

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Kings Rumors: Acuff, Sabonis, LaVine, Kuminga, More

Shortly after the Kings landed the No. 7 pick in the 2026 draft lottery, rumors of their interest in former Arkansas guard Darius Acuff Jr. began to percolate. That chatter turned out not to be a smoke screen. As Anthony Slater of ESPN writes, Acuff was “definitely” ranked higher than seventh on Sacramento’s draft board […]

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Maccabi Tel Aviv Signs Daniel Theis, Eyeing Keaton Wallace

Longtime NBA center Daniel Theis has officially signed a two-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Israeli team announced today in a press release. The move had been expected, with a recent report indicating that he’d earn $2.2MM per year on his new deal. Theis, 34, went undrafted in 2013 and continued to play in […]

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Cole Anthony Joining Melbourne United

Free agent point guard Cole Anthony has signed a one-year contract with Melbourne United and will spend the 2026/27 season in Australia’s National Basketball League, the team announced in a press release. Within that release, the club refers to Anthony as “one of the most athletic and dynamic guards the NBL will have ever seen.” […]

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Pacific Notes: Lakers Targets, Melton, Leons, Wagler

The Lakers have more players under contract than they can field heading into the season, but they also still have a clear question mark as to who will occupy the starting power forward role next year. With limited assets, both financially and in terms of trade chips, and few targets left on the market, Eric […]

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Raptors, Andre Jackson Jr. Agree To Training Camp Deal

The Raptors have agreed to a deal with Andre Jackson Jr. that will provide the athletic guard an opportunity to compete for a roster spot at training camp, Michael Scotto reports for HoopsHype (Twitter link). While terms of the deal were not disclosed, it’s almost certainly a non-guaranteed contract. Jackson spent the first three seasons […]

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Luka Doncic Says Hamstring Is “100 Percent” Healthy

The subject of Luka Doncic‘s health and durability has been a topic of conversation since the Mavericks made the landscape-shaking decision to trade him to the Lakers in 2025. After an elite season that saw the Slovenian star average 33.5 points, 7.7 rebounds, and 8.3 assists per game en route to being named First Team […]

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Atlantic Notes: Sixers, Knicks, Brown, Celtics Depth

After adding Jaylen Brown via trade and LeBron James via free agency, the Sixers have become one of the most discussed teams in the league. They still have a 15th roster spot available and will more than likely move into next season with that spot unfilled, since they are currently just $1.8MM below the first […]

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International Notes: D. Williams, Chriss, Giles, Brooks

Derrick Williams, the second overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft, hasn’t been in the league since he signed a 10-day contract with the Lakers in March 2018. However, the veteran forward continues to play professional basketball at age 35. As Dario Skerletic of Sportando relays, Williams has signed with the Seoul Samsung Thunders in […]

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Players Who Can’t Be Traded Until January 15

As we detailed in a separate article, players who signed new contracts as free agents during the 2026/27 league year can’t be traded for three months or until December 15, whichever comes later. That means that nearly every team has at least one player – and often more than one – who won’t become trade-eligible […]

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And-Ones: Achilles Tears, Williams, NCAA, Billups

A medical study published in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine claims to have found a correlation between Achilles tendon tears and an uptick in minutes played during the 10-to-15 games prior to the injury, writes Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic. However, the NBA has disputed the study, stating that its own internal research shows […]

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Northwest Notes: Watson, S. Jones, Blazers, Wolves

Appearing on DNVR Sports’ Nuggets podcast (YouTube link), NBA insider Marc Stein said he continues to hear that the Nuggets‘ offers to restricted free agent forward Peyton Watson have been in the range of $16-18MM per year. Stein reported last week that Denver’s best offer to Watson at that point in his free agency had […]

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Players Who Can’t Be Traded Until December 15

As teams explore the trade market for potential deals to complete their rosters for training camp, there are a number of trade restrictions those clubs must take into account. Most notably, newly signed free agents can’t be dealt until at least December 15. The NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement states that a free agent who signs […]

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Raptors, Trey Jemison Agree To Two-Way Deal

Free agent center Trey Jemison has agreed to terms on a two-way contract with the Raptors, league sources tell NBA insider Chris Haynes (Twitter link). Toronto has four spots open on its 21-man offseason roster, including one available two-way slot, so no corresponding move will be necessary to officially bring Jemison aboard. An undrafted free […]

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Stein’s Latest: Blazers, DeRozan, Holiday, Lakers, More

Despite speculation to the contrary, the Trail Blazers aren’t currently pursuing free agent forward DeMar DeRozan, league sources tell Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Substack link). Portland is only carry 12 players on fully guaranteed contracts for 2026/27 and could use some additional depth at forward, but it doesn’t sound as if the team […]

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Kings Considering Russell Westbrook, Victor Oladipo

The Kings would like to bring in a veteran point guard to serve as a mentor to rookie Darius Acuff Jr., according to Jake Fischer and Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Substack link), who report that Sacramento is considering the possibility of reuniting with free agent point guard Russell Westbrook after he spent last […]

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Moses Moody Hoping To Resume On-Court Work In September

Warriors guard/forward Moses Moody is hoping to resume running and on-court work in September, according to Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic, who reports that the 24-year-old has been rehabbing in the Bay Area this offseason. Moody suffered a torn left patellar tendon in late March and underwent surgery to address the major knee injury […]

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Executive Gersson Rosas Departs Knicks

Knicks senior vice president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas is no longer with the organization, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link), who notes that the veteran NBA executive hinted at his departure in a recent Instagram post. Rosas was hired by New York as a senior basketball consultant in February 2022. He was promoted […]

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