The 2022 NBA offseason is already off to a WILD start with deals already going back to before and during the draft, so I'm starting my tracker a touch earlier than usual. This is mostly to keep all of the news in one easy place to reference and put my contract estimates in bold, italicized numbers based on reported figures. I'm trying something new this year with the newest deals up top so that you don't have to scroll all the way to the bottom for the latest news. Command/Control F is still your friend for a specific player or team, of course.
Estimates/Player Options/Team Options/Not Fully Guaranteed
Mitchell heads to Cleveland in a blockbuster (Woj 9/1)
Cavaliers receive:
Jazz receive:
Here I thought I was done updating this with the end of July and then boom, the long-awaited Donovan Mitchell trade finally happened. Danny Ainge's patience paid off with three unprotected picks coming back along with two potential pick swaps and Agbaji, who was just picked 14th in this year's draft like Kessler in the Gobert trade to make this essentially four 1st rounders and two young, useful players.
For one of them, Sexton, this was one of the best-case scenarios as a restricted free agent this late into the summer. A late sign-and-trade in RFA was how Markkanen first got to Cleveland last year, as well, and now the 23 and 25 year olds are a part of a new core in Utah to usher in the way for the absolute bounty of upcoming picks that they now have. With these two major trades, Ainge showed once again how masterful he is at rebuilding like in his time with Boston.
That's not to say this is a bad deal for Cleveland. I think it's a fair trade with both sides getting what they want. It may be a surprise that a young team is going all-in after just a 44-38 season with a Play-In exit, but Mitchell fits into their timeline as he turns 26 next week. Like with Sexton, I have concerns about his defensive fit next to another small guard in Darius Garland, but he is clearly an upgrade at the position. This should at least raise their floor moving forward, with their future trajectory going as far as Rookie of the Year runner-up Evan Mobley eventually takes them.
Dellavedova signs with Kings: 1 year, partially guaranteed (Kings/Scotto 7/29)
Paschall agrees to sign with Minnesota: 1 year deal (Woj 7/29)
Update: Darren Wolfson reports that will be just a two-way contract.
Fernandon re-signs with Houston (Rockets 7/26)
8/1 update: Keith Smith reports that it's a non-guaranteed, Exhibit-10 deal.
Hernangomez agrees to sign with Toronto: 1 year deal (Woj 7/26)
Harden officially agrees to return to Philadelphia: 2 years, $68.6 million (Woj 7/20)
Ayton agrees to offer sheet with Indiana: 4 years, $133 million (Woj 7/14)
Update: Phoenix matched the offer as soon as it officially came in, so I don't know why they even went through this process instead of just making the offer themselves.
Edwards agrees to return to Brooklyn (Keith Smith 7/6)
Since the Nets already announced it before the moratorium ends later today, it's likely a minimum contract that can be signed already. It costs them slightly more than his $1,563,518 team option was going to be, but now he's on a multi-year deal. Scotto has now added that they have a team option on the second year again, which could result in him hitting restricted free agency for a longer team deal all over again, similar to Jae'Sean Tate with Houston this year.
Martin agrees to return to Miami: 3 years, $20 million (Tim Reynolds, Shams with details 7/6)
This means one less sign-and-trade option to make the math work for Miami in a possible KD trade, though that was always a tough sell with the hard-cap that would place on Brooklyn. Looks like Martin is getting the equivalent of the TP MLE since they only had Non-Bird rights, and they could still use the rest of the full MLE if needed while still remaining under the apron.
Bryant agrees to sign (back) with Lakers: 1 year deal (Haynes 7/5)
Sumner agrees to sign (back) with Brooklyn (Woj 7/5)
Sumner was traded to Brooklyn last year but was cut since he has an extensive injury history like Warren, so this probably isn't a guaranteed contract.
Warren agrees to sign with Brooklyn: 1 year deal (Shams, Woj with the one year 7/5)
This could be either part of the $6.5 million TP MLE, but the reporting kind of seems like the minimum, which would pay him $2,628,597 while counting at this cap figure.
Dieng agrees to sign with San Antonio (again): 1 year deal (Shams 7/4)
The Spurs have the most cap space in the league right now, but I'd be a little surprise if they used part of it on a 32 year old here rather than a minimum.
Ibaka agrees to return to Milwaukee: 1 year deal (Shams 7/4)
They had Early Bird rights for him, but a 1 year deal would mean a deal signed through Non-Bird rights or even the minimum. A bit of a surprise from Ibaka after he was mostly iced out of the playoff rotation and Portis was re-signed.
Hauser agrees to return to Boston: 3 years, $6 million (Adam Himmelsbach 7/3)
Dragic agrees to sign with Chicago: 1 year, minimum contract (Schultz, Shams with details 7/3)
Okogie agrees to sign with Phoenix: 1 year deal (Shams 7/2)
I could see Okogie getting part of the MLE, but we'll wait on any details beyond the minimum for now.
Phoenix trades for Landale (Shams 7/2)
Suns receive:
Hawks receive:
Cash considerations (per Chris Kirschner)
The Suns transaction at center we've all been waiting for! But in all seriousness, it was surprising that Landale was a late add to the Murray trade, and now he's on the move already. He can be taken in without sending any salary back through the Minimum Exception.
Martin agrees to return to Charlotte: 4 years, $32 million (Shams 7/2)
7/6 update: Scotto reports that the final year is fully non-guaranteed.
Garland agrees to extend with Cleveland: 5 years, $193 million that could become $231 million (Woj 7/2)
Same deal as Morant and Williamson where he needs to make an All-NBA team, win MVP, or win DPOY to qualify for the 30% raise.
Biyombo agrees to return to Phoenix: (Haynes 7/2)
Lee agrees to sign with Phoenix: 1 year deal (Woj 7/1)
Most likely the minimum.
Forbes agrees to sign with Minnesota: 1 year, minimum (Krawcynski 7/1)
Smith agrees to return to Indiana: 2 year deal (Shams 7/1)
DiVincenzo agrees to sign with Golden State: 2 years, $9.3 million (Shams 7/1)
Kornet agrees to return to Boston: 2 year deal (Haynes 7/1)
Neto agrees to sign with Cleveland (Shams 7/1)
Minnesota trades for Gobert (Woj 7/1, Krawczynski with pick details)
Timberwolves receive:
The talk has been that the Twin Cities wanted to go full Twin Towers, and that's why they drafted Kessler last week. Now he's on the move along with Vanderbilt, who played a bit like a center next to Karl-Anthony Towns already, and other nice players for the Stifle Tower. Bolmaro was just a 1st rounder last year, so this is almost the equivalent of six 1st round picks and a swap. Sending out that many picks and with almost no protections is jaw-dropping, especially for a highly questionable roster fit who is owed $169.7 million across his age 30-33 seasons.
Bjelica agrees to sign with Fenerbahce in Turkey (Sportando/Slater 7/1)
That's most of the champions' free agents off the board now as Bjelica goes back to the team that he was the Euroleague MVP for.
Looney agrees to return to Golden State: 3 years, $25.5 million (Woj 7/1)
Anthonly Slater adds that the last year only has $3 million guaranteed, so it's pretty close to the 4/$26 million with $22 million guaranteed that I projected.
Jones agrees to return to Chicago: 2 years, $6.6 million (Shams 7/1)
Celtics trade for Brogdon (Woj 7/1)
Celtics receive:
Pacers receive:
Kings trade for Huerter (Woj 7/1)
Kings receive:
Hawks receive:
Gives Atlanta some more flexibility and a pick back after the Murray trade.
Lopez agrees to sign with Cleveland: 1 year deal (Woj 7/1)
Also likely the minimum.
Eubanks agrees to return to Portland: 1 year deal (Woj 7/1)
Wall agrees to sign with Clips: 2 years, $13.2 million (Klutch 7/1)
As expected for the Tax MLE that's about the equivalent of his buyout with Houston, though it being 2 years is new info.
Nurkic agrees to return to Portland: 4 years, $70 million (Woj 7/1)
LaVine agrees to return to Chicago: 5 years, $215.2 million (Shams 7/1)
Gallinari's "preference is to join" Boston (Woj 7/1)
He technically has to clear waivers first, but hardly any team has the ability to claim his $21 million salary. After getting around $12 million from the Spurs already, it'll be interesting to see if the Celtics have to use their TP MLE or just the minimum to add him.
La Gazzetta dello Sport's Davide Chinellato reported that it will be 2 years, $13 million with a player option, which would look be the TP MLE...you know if they could negotiate with a current Spurs player already. *wink wink*
Porter agrees to sign with Toronto: 2 years, $12.4 million (Haynes 7/1, Gogna with details)
Pinson agrees to return to Dallas: 1 year deal (Woj 7/1)
Likely the minimum after being on 10-days and two-ways before exhausting two-way eligibility.
Holiday agrees to sign with Atlanta: 1 year deal (Shams 7/1)
Bol agrees to return to Orlando: 2 year deal (Khobi Price 7/1)
Robinson agrees to return to New York: 4 years, $60 million (Woj 7/1)
Brown agrees to sign with Denver: 2 years, $13 million (Malika Andrews 7/1)
Rubio agrees to sign with (return to) Cleveland: 3 years, $18.4 million (Haynes 7/1)
Part of the MLE that could fit into the Taxpayer MLE in case they keep adding salary.
Williams agrees to extend with New Orleans: 5 years "$231 million" (Shams 7/1)
Like with Morant, the number is dependent on the cap and qualifying for the 30% max rather than 25%. There are reportedly protections built in for injuries like Joel Embiid's original extension.
Payton agrees to sign with Portland: 3 years, $28 million (Shams 6/30)
Morant agrees to extend with Memphis: 5 years, $193 million that could become $231 million (Woj 6/30)
Towns agrees to extend with Minnesota: 4 years, "$224 million" (Woj 6/30)
Muscala agrees to return to Oklahoma City: 1 year, minimum contract (Darren Wolfson 6/30)
8/8 update: Scotto and Smith report that it's actually a 2 year, $7 million deal with the second year being a team option.
Drummond agrees to sign with Chicago: 2 years, $6.6 million (Shams, Woj with details 6/30)
Likely uses part of their MLE at this price.
Wright agrees to sign with Washington: 2 years, $16 million (Woj 6/30)
Would also seem to use most of their MLE.
Anderson agrees to sign with Minnesota: 2 years, $18 million (Woj 6/30)
Harris agrees to return to Orlando: 2 years, $26 million (Woj 6/30)
7/1 update: Marks adds that the second year has no protection in it and that it's a $13 million cap hit this year.
Knox agrees to sign with Detroit: 2 years, $6 million (Shams 6/30)
Gill agrees to return to Washington: 2 year deal (Woj 6/30)
Projecting the minimum for now.
McGee agrees to sign with Dallas: 3 years, $20.1 million (Haynes, Shams with details 6/30)
Toscano-Anderson agrees to sign with Lakers (Haynes 6/30)
Claxton agrees to return to Brooklyn: 2 years, $20 million (Woj 6/30)
Brown agrees to sign with Lakers: 1 year, minimum contract (Shams 6/30)
What do you now, another client of Klutch Sports.
Walker agrees to sign with Lakers: 1 year, $6.5 million (Shams 6/30)
Tate agrees to return to Houston: 3 years, $22.1 million (Shams 6/30)
Projecting the equivalent of the Taxpayer MLE for now. This was more of what I expected for Dort after Tate had the similar situation of a decline team option in favor of a long-term deal, though the Rockets had more leverage since Tate was still two years away from unrestricted free agency..
Mills agrees to return to Brooklyn: 2 years, $14.5 million (Woj 6/30)
Bagley agrees to return to Detroit: 3 years, $37 million (Haynes 6/30)
7/6 update: Keith Smith reports that Bagley is actually getting a flat $12.5 million per season, so it's slightly more than originally reported.
Young agrees to return to Toronto: 2 years, $16 million (Haynes 6/30)
Dedmon agrees to return to Miami: 2 years, $9 million (Shams 6/30)
Davon Reed agrees to return to Denver: 2 year deal (Shams 6/30)
Projecting the minimum for now.
Queen agrees to sign with Philadelphia: 2 years, "$3.3 million" (Woj, Haynes with details 6/30)
Dort agrees to return to Oklahoma City: 5 years, $87.5 million (Woj 6/30)
So much for a discount after they declined his $1,930,681 team option to let him hit restricted free agency now rather than unrestricted next year as this is essentially tacking on $85.6 million over four years. I could also see them front-loading it like this:
Boucher agrees to return to Toronto: 3 years, $35.25 million (Woj 6/30)
Jones agrees to sign with Lakers (again): 2 year deal (Woj 6/30)
Carter agrees to return to Milwaukee: 2 year deal (Shams 6/30)
Coffey agrees to return to Clippers: 3 years, $11 million (Woj 6/30)
Matthews agrees to return to Milwaukee: 1 year deal (Shams 6/30)
Projecting the minimum.
Ingles agrees to sign with Milwaukee: 1 year, $6.5 million (Wife Renae Ingles, Haynes with details 6/30)
Jones agrees to return to Memphis: 2 years, $30 million (Woj 6/30)
Bamba agrees to return to Orlando: 2 years, $21 million (Haynes 6/30
House agrees to sign with Philadelphia: 2 years, $8.5 million (Shams, Woj with details 6/30)
Portis agrees to return to Milwaukee: 4 years, $49 million (Woj 6/30)
Full amount possible through Early Bird rights after they were limited by Non-Bird rights last year.
7/6 update: Scotto adds that the last year is a player option, and there's a 15% trade kicker.
Simons agrees to return to Portland: 4 years, $100 million (Woj 6/30)
Tucker agrees to sign with Philadelphia: 3 years, $33.2 million (Shams 6/30)
Batum agrees to return to Clippers: 2 years, $22 million (Haynes 6/30)
Beal agrees to return to Washington: 5 years, $251 million (Woj 6/30)
7/6 update: Marks adds that not only is the fifth year a player option (I have a feeling he'll pick it up), but Beal is only the 10th player ever to have a full no-trade clause.
Oladipo agrees to return to Miami: 1 year, $11 million (Shams 6/30)
7/6 update: Anthony Chiang reports that it's actually going to be a 2 year, $18 million deal with the second seasons a player option in order to reduce Oladipo's cap hit this season. It's a bit of a curious move after he already settled for the minimum last year while rehabbing because while this does give him some security with more guaranteed money, it reduces his total possible earnings if he does well to cash in another contract.
Hartenstein agrees to sign with New York: 2 years, $16 million (Shams 6/30)
Jordan, Nuggets agree to deal (Shams 6/30)
Projecting the minimum.
Monk agrees to sign with Sacramento: 2 years, $19 million (Shams/Amick 6/30)
Booker, Phoenix agree to extension: 5 years, "$224 million" (Shams/Woj 6/30)
Official number will depend on the 2024 salary cap. Shams originally tweeted it as $214 million, which seemed to match current projections, but based on Woj's and Marks' tweets, it sounds like projections for 2024 are a cap around $142.86 million to result in a $224 million contract.
Jokic, Denver agree to extension: 5 years, "$264 million" (Shams 6/30)
Official number will depend on next year's salary cap, but I updated my projection to nearly $270 million based on Bobby Marks reporting that next year's cap is now projected to be $133 million.
Brunson "intends to sign" with New York: 4 years, $104 million (Shams 6/30)
Nets pick up O'Neale (Shams 6/30)
Nets receive:
Jazz receive:
2023 1st round pick (Lesser of Nets' or 76ers')
O'Neale fits into the $11,306,904 James Harden Trade Exception.
Atlanta makes splash for Murray (Woj 6/29)
Hawks receive:
Gallinari's deal was only $5 million guaranteed but should be bumped up to at least $11,571,120 to make this work. Both John Hollinger and Zach Lowe reported that the Hawks picks are completely unprotected, which increases the potential upside with them coming so far down the line.
That was quick. Was just talking to @therealjonrey last night about Wembanyama possibly leaving Tony Parker’s team ASVEL, which was ironic given all the Spurs talk yesterday and that obvious connection. Collet’s appeal was too much https://t.co/aipOUBFADs
— Dave Giovanazzi (@SF_DavidGio) June 30, 2022
Washington finally land their PG (Shams 6/29)
Wizards receive:
Nuggets receive:
This likely creates a Trade Exception worth the equivalent of Morris' $9,125,000 like the JaMychal Green salary dump last week.
Based on the information available so far, this allows New York to create up to about $37 million in cap space while still keeping Mitchell Robinson's small $1,931,714 cap hold on the books until his deal gets done after using all of their space.
7/11 update: As expected, New York didn't receive any contracts back, just the draft rights Nikola Radicevic and a protected 2025 2nd round pick. The 28 year old was the 57th pick in 2015 and has stayed in Europe since then besides one summer league appearance in 2017 and was sent from Denver to Detroit in the Jerami Grant sign-and-trade in 2020. It does look like one of the 2nd round picks changed from a 2024 one to a 2026 one via either Minnesota or New York.
7/5 update: Michael Scotto adds that the second year is fully non-guaranteed, which is slightly different than a team option with different guarantee dates and the waiver process involved.
Zubac, Clippers agree to 3 year, $32.8 million extension (Woj 6/28)
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