John Wall – despite displeasure sitting out last season with the Rockets – secured the last ginormous payday of his career by exercising his $47,366,760 player option with Houston for next season.
In what looked like attempts by Kyrie Irving to gain leverage during a contract negotiation with the Nets, a series of reports have discussed the possibility he leaves Brooklyn this summer.
For just the first time in the nine years I’ve been ranking NBA draft prospects by tiers, I gave strong consideration to putting three players in the top tier.
After agreeing to a two-year deal that wasn’t legal cap-wise with Pat Connaughton in 2020, the scrambling Bucks had to give him a three-year contract with a $5,728,393 player option.
The Clippers re-signed Nicolas Batum last year to a relatively cheap 1+1 Non-Bird Exception contract that looked designed to allow him to get a big raise once the team held his Early Bird Rights this offseason.
