NBA Feed: HoopsRumors

Mavericks Sign Cooper Flagg To Rookie Contract

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg has officially signed his first NBA contract, the Mavericks announced on Wednesday (via Twitter). The rookie scale deal will pay Flagg a $13.8MM salary in his rookie year and a total of $62.7MM across his first four NBA seasons. [RELATED: Rookie Scale Salaries For 2025 NBA First-Round Picks] The […]
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Hornets, Spencer Dinwiddie Agree To One-Year Deal

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — Free agent point guard Spencer Dinwiddie has agreed to sign a one-year contract with the Hornets, sources tell Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link). Charania’s report doesn’t include any salary details, but I’d expect it’ll be a veteran’s minimum deal for Dinwiddie, who played for the minimum last season as well, as a member of […]
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Lakers Rumors: LeBron, Kessler, Richards

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — Although ESPN’s Brian Windhorst still isn’t expecting the Lakers to trade LeBron James, he said on Wednesday’s episode of First Take (YouTube link) that he doesn’t consider it quite as unlikely as he did a few days ago when reports of the star forward opting in for 2025/26 were accompanied by a “nebulous” statement from […]
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Knicks Expected To Hire Mike Brown As Head Coach

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — The Knicks are expected to hire Mike Brown as their new head coach, reports Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link). NBA insider Chris Haynes (Twitter link) confirms Brown has been offered the job and says the two sides are working “expeditiously” on finalizing the terms of a contract. Brown, who began his coaching career as […]
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Free Agency Notes: Cancar, Nuggets Additions, Turner, Middle Class, Spending Power

HoopsRumors (Dana Gauruder) — Vlatko Cancar is expected to leave the Nuggets and head to Europe next season, Donatas Urbonas of Basketnews.com reports. Italy’s Emporio Armani Milan has emerged as the leading candidate to sign Cancar, Urbonas adds. Cancar has spent the past five seasons with Denver. He only appeared in 13 games this past season, averaging 1.8 points […]
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Second-Round Pick Exception Details For 2025/26

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — As we first outlined in 2023 when it was introduced as a new addition to the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, the second-round pick exception allows NBA teams to sign their second-round picks to standard contracts without requiring cap room or another exception (such as the mid-level) to do so. Like the rookie scale exception, the […]
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And-Ones: Kokoskov, Luxury Tax Payments, 2026 Mock, Injuries, NBA TV

HoopsRumors (Dana Gauruder) — Hawks assistant Igor Kokoskov is leaving his position to become head coach of Turkish League team Anadolu Efes, according to Eurohoops.net. Kokoskov has signed a three-year contract. Kokoskov has been an assistant in the NBA for 19 years, along with a stint as the head coach of the Suns during the 2018/19 season. He was […]
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Rookie Scale Salaries For 2025 NBA First-Round Picks

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — With the NBA’s salary cap set at $154,647,000 for the 2025/26 league year, the rookie scale has been set as well. The rookie scale locks in the value of contracts for first-round picks. In each NBA league year, rookie scale amounts are assigned to each first-round slot, from No. 1 through No. 30. Teams can […]
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Checking In On Top Remaining NBA Free Agents

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — The NBA’s free agent period officially opened less than 40 hours ago, but the list of this year’s top available players has already been pretty picked clean, with 35 of the players from our list of 2025’s top 50 free agents having already agreed to terms with a team. Here are the players from our […]
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NBA 2025 Free Agency: July 1 Recap

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — After a number of this year’s top free agents came off the board on Monday or in the days leading up to June 30, the Bucks nearly singlehandedly made sure there was still plenty of NBA news to talk about on Tuesday. Milwaukee agreed to terms on two-year deals with big man Jericho Sims and […]
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Cavs Re-Sign Luke Travers On Two-Way Contract

HoopsRumors (Dana Gauruder) — The Cavaliers have re-signed forward Luke Travers on a tw0-way contract, according to the NBA transactions log. Travers received a qualifying offer and apparently accepted that offer to remain on a two-way deal. The qualifying offer is equivalent to another one-year, two-way deal, with a portion (approximately $85K) guaranteed. Drafted No. 26 overall in 2022, […]
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Eric Gordon Re-Signs With Sixers On One-Year Deal

HoopsRumors (Dana Gauruder) — The Sixers have officially re-signed veteran guard Eric Gordon, according to team press release. It’s a one-year, veteran’s minimum deal worth $3.6MM, Sixers beat reporter Derek Bodner tweets. Gordon declined his $3.47MM option in order to become a free agent but there was reported interest in a reunion and it has come to fruition. Turning […]
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Western Notes: Kidd, Collins, Bailey, Harper

HoopsRumors (Dana Gauruder) — The Mavericks are expected to extend head coach Jason Kidd‘s contract again before the start of next season, Marc Stein and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line report. Kidd received an extension after last season and GM Nico Harrison indicated last week that Kidd would remain the team’s head coach next season. Of course, the […]
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Free Agency Notes: Turner, Lillard, Kuminga, Clarkson, Beasley

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — According to Gregg Doyel of The Indianapolis Star (subscription required), the Pacers offered up to $95MM over four years for Myles Turner before he agreed to sign with the Bucks. Earlier reporting suggested Indiana didn’t go above roughly $60MM over three years. Doyel shares that tidbit within a column defending the Pacers and castigating Turner’s […]
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Jaren Jackson Jr. To Undergo Procedure On Turf Toe

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — Just over 24 hours after word broke that the Grizzlies and Jaren Jackson Jr. had agreed to a long-term deal that will pay him $240MM over the next five seasons, the team offered a more sobering update on its star big man. According to the Grizzlies (Twitter link), Jackson sustained a turf toe injury in […]
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