2018 NBA Offseason Round Up, Part 2

We're just 10 days into July yet there's already been a ton of movement. Since Part 1 of this round up has already gotten too large, the rest of this summer's moves will be recapped here. There isn't a ton of cap space left out there, but as of this writing, I have the Hawks as the leaders with up to $24.2 million, the Bulls with up to $20.6, the Kings with $19.5, and the Nets with up to $12.1. And that's pretty much it, with those teams more likely to keep some of their non-guaranteed guys and/or hoard their room for trades. Other franchises just have some of their exceptions to use, so it's definitely a tough market out there.

Luc Mbah a Moute signs with the Clippers: 1 year, $4.3 million (Woj)

Luc Mbah a Moute

$4,320,500

The rest of the MLE that's being split with Mike Scott.

Bryn Forbes re-signs with the Spurs: 2 years (Shams)

Bryn Forbes

$1,512,601

$1,645,357

I'm assuming the minimum for now.

Davis Bertans re-signs with the Spurs: 2 years, $14.5 million (Shams)

Davis Bertans

$7,073,171

$7,426,829

James Ennis signs with the Rockets: 2 years, minimum contract (Feigen)

James Ennis

$1,621,415

$1,845,300

Wayne Ellington re-signs with the Heat: 1 year, $6.27 million (Haynes)

Wayne Ellington

$6,270,000

Isaiah Thomas signs with the Nuggets: 1 year, minimum contract (Woj)

Isaiah Thomas

$1,512,601

Man, it’s pretty sad to see how far Isaiah has fallen after everything over this past year. His minimum as a 7 year vet is $2,029,463. Not quite the brinks truck he was hoping for.

Jeremy Lin salary dumped on the Hawks (Woj)

Hawks receive:

Jeremy Lin

$12,516,746

Right to swap 2023 2nd round picks

2025 2nd round pick

Nets receive:

Rights to Isaia Cordinier (44th pick in 2016)

Portland’s 2020 2nd round pick, protected 31-55

Nuggets avoid the luxury tax thanks to the Nets (Woj)

Nets receive:

Kenneth Faried

$13,764,045

Darrell Arthur

$7,464,912

2019 1st round pick, protected 1-12

2020 2nd

Nuggets receive:

Isaiah Whitehead

$1,544,951

$1,676,735

Georges Niang re-signs with the Jazz: “multiyear deal” (Shams)

Georges Niang

$1,512,601

$1,645,357

Jabari Parker signs with the Bulls: 2 years, $40 million (Woelfel)

Jabari Parker

$19,512,195

$20,487,805

Entirety of the 2nd year being a team option, per Woj, is huge.

Channing Frye signs with the Cavs: 1 year, minimum contract (Shams)

Channing Frye

$1,512,601

Frye will get $2,393,887 thanks to his experience.

Shabazzi Napier signs with the Nets: 2 year deal (Woj)

Shabazz Napier

$1,621,415

$1,845,300

No financial details yet, but if it’s for the minimum like I’m assuming, Brooklyn can wait until they use the last ~$2 million or so they have left in cap room.

Dante Cunningham signs with the Spurs: 1 year, minimum contract (Woj)

Dante Cunningham

$1,512,601

$2,176,260 will be Cunningham’s reward for having 9 years of experience.

Garrett Temple traded to Memphis (Woj)

Grizzlies receive:

Garrett Temple

$8,000,000

Kings receive:

Ben McLemore

$5,460,000

Deyonta Davis

$1,544,951

2021 2nd round pick

$1.5 million cash

Lorenzo Brown re-signs with the Raptors: 1 year deal (Shams)

Lorenzo Brown

$1,512,601

Brown will earn slight more ($1,621,415) as a 4 year vet.

Treveon Graham signs with the Nets: 2 year deal (Shams)

Treveon Graham

$1,512,601

$1,645,357

Kawhi Leonard traded to the Raptors (Woj)

Raptors receive:

Kawhi Leonard

$20,099,189

$21,329,752

Danny Green

$10,000,000

Spurs receive:

DeMar DeRozan

$27,739,975

$27,739,975

$27,739,975

Jakob Poeltl

$2,947,320

$3,754,886

2019 1st round pick (protected 1-20, then becomes two 2nd round picks)

Credit to Shams for first reporting that this deal was close before Woj had the confirmation with details of the whole package.

2018 NBA Offseason Round Up, Part 1

Can you believe it's already July 1st? If 2018 seems like it's flying by too fast to keep up with all of the NBA news, I've got you covered with everything that went down in the last week with my draft recap. Now, the real fun begins with free agency already going wild just 24 hours in, and I'll try to recap every bit of movement. I probably won't have as many live updates as what I did last year in two parts, but this will be a one stop shop for all the news with guesses at the contract structures. My estimations have been pretty close, but if exact numbers are unknown, they’ll be in bold italics while player options, team options, and non-guaranteed years will be colored as such.

Kevin Durant to re-sign with the Warriors: 1 year, $30 million with a player option (Stein)

Kevin Durant

$30,000,000

$31,500,000

I’ve talked a lot before about the options Durant had, and it’s not too dissimilar to last year. Although going with another 1+1 deal through Non-Bird rights limits him to a 20% raise on last season’s $25 million salary, it provides him leverage with some financial security, and next year as he turns 31, he will finally have full Bird rights to lock in a 5 year deal at the max should he so choose. I’m sure Golden State would’ve preferred giving him his full max now instead of leaving the possibility that he could leave next year, but on the bright side, this saves them at least $23 million or so between salary and luxury tax payments. The $5.65 million difference between Durant’s max salary this year and what he chose more than covers the Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception of $5.34 million, so they may be more inclined to use it now despite the tax implications. After all, there are other ways of saving salary like keeping an open roster spot for much of the season so that they don’t have another situation where they have to cut Omri Casspi to convert Quinn Cook’s two-way contract.

Updated #'s for Durant's options this summer now that we know this year's cap and the $109M/$116M projections for the next two years (per @EricPincus).

As I said above, the 1+1 would help the #Warriors' tax bill and allow him to lock in potentially $91.5M more in a year pic.twitter.com/c01ufO9CwY

— David Giovanazzi (@SF_DavidGio) July 1, 2018