NBA Feed: HoopsRumors

Lakers Rumors: LeBron, Finney-Smith, Reaves, Luka, Centers

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — With one day until LeBron James must make a decision on his $52.6MM player option for the 2025/26 season, ESPN’s Dave McMenamin is hearing the same thing his colleague Shams Charania was a month ago: James is expected to exercise that option to play out the final year of his current contract. James has considered […]
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Blazers Exercise Rayan Rupert’s 2025/26 Option

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — The Trail Blazers are picking up Rayan Rupert‘s team option for the 2025/26 season, reports Sean Highkin of The Rose Garden Report (Twitter link). The team issued a press release confirming the move is official. Rupert’s $2.22MM salary for next season will technically remain non-guaranteed for a couple more days, but will become fully guaranteed […]
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Warriors Make Jonathan Kuminga Restricted FA

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — The Warriors have issued qualifying offers to three players, making them restricted free agents, according to Keith Smith of Spotrac (Twitter link). That trio includes forward Jonathan Kuminga, one of this summer’s most intriguing young free agents. The 22-year-old received a qualifying offer worth roughly $7.98MM. The other two players getting qualifying offers from the […]
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Nets Pick Up Team Options On Four Players

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — The Nets have exercised their team options for 2025/26 on four players, the team announced today (Twitter link via Michael Scotto of HoopsHype). Those players, along with their option salaries, are as follows: Keon Johnson ($2,349,578) Jalen Wilson ($2,221,677) Tyrese Martin ($2,191,897) Drew Timme ($1,955,377) Crucially, Brooklyn’s decision to pick up these options does not […]
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Cavs, Sam Merrill Agree To Four-Year Deal

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — The Cavaliers and free agent guard Sam Merrill have agreed to a four-year, $38MM contract that will keep him in Cleveland, sources tell Shams Charania of ESPN. After spending some time in Milwaukee and Memphis at the beginning of his NBA career, Merrill has been with the Cavs for the past two-plus seasons. He initially […]
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Pistons, Clippers Eyeing Nickeil Alexander-Walker?

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — After the Timberwolves reached a five-year, $125MM contract agreement with big man Naz Reid on Friday, there’s a “growing belief” that they’ll bring back power forward Julius Randle on a new multiyear deal as well, reports Jake Fischer of The Stein Line (Substack link). That might make Nickeil Alexander-Walker the odd man out in Minnesota, […]
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Davion Mitchell To Re-Sign With Heat On Two-Year Deal

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — Free agent guard Davion Mitchell intends to re-sign with the Heat, according to Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link), who hears from sources that Mitchell has agreed to a two-year, $24MM contract. The deal will be fully guaranteed, Charania adds. More to come…
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Atlantic Notes: Nets Draft, Celtics, Knicks, Broome

HoopsRumors (Earnest Marshall) — The Nets‘ draft left fans with more questions than answers after they spent an NBA record five first-round picks in the same class, with the talents of some selections overlapping. Still, as Lucas Kaplan of NetsDaily writes, one thing is for certain: Brooklyn made sure to value what they saw as high-character players during this […]
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Bulls Trading Lonzo Ball To Cavaliers For Isaac Okoro

HoopsRumors (Earnest Marshall) — The Bulls are trading Lonzo Ball to the Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania (Twitter link). More to come…
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And-Ones: 2025 Draft Grades, 2026 Class, France, Gabriel

HoopsRumors (Earnest Marshall) — Five teams earned ‘A’ grades on Sam Vecenie’s post-draft report card for The Athletic, including four teams in the top six. The lone team who picked later in the draft to earn the highest mark is the Hawks, primarily for landing an unprotected 2026 pick from the Pelicans to drop 10 spots in the draft. […]
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Southeast Notes: Jakucionis, Ware, Newell, White, Richardson, Penda

HoopsRumors (Earnest Marshall) — New Heat guard Kasparas Jakucionis declined to conduct a predraft workout for the Heat because he thought he would not be available by the time they picked at No. 20, according to the Miami Herald’s Anthony Chiang. Miami also didn’t think Jakucionis, ranked in the top 10 on several big boards, would be available to […]
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Stein’s Latest: Mavs, D-Lo, Paul, Exum, Sixers, Hawks

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — Within his latest NBA rumor round-up for The Stein Line (Substack link), Marc Stein reiterates a report he published on Twitter earlier this week, writing that the Mavericks are “increasingly regarded as the favorites” to sign point guard D’Angelo Russell. Dallas will likely be limited to offering free agents the $5.7MM taxpayer mid-level exception, and […]
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Raptors Notes: Ujiri, Webster, Murray-Boyles, Martin

HoopsRumors (Eli Cohen) — The timing of the Raptors‘ announcement that they’re parting ways with president Masai Ujiri was met with some confusion on Friday morning, but according to Michael Grange of Sportsnet, that decision was mutually made between the two parties. As Grange relays (via Twitter), Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment president Keith Pelley told reporters on Friday […]
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Chase Hunter To Sign Exhibit 10 Contract With Pelicans

HoopsRumors (Luke Adams) — After going undrafted this week, former Clemson guard Chase Hunter has reached an agreement to sign an Exhibit 10 contract with the Pelicans, he announced on his Instagram account. Hunter had a lengthy college career with the Tigers, which spanned six years from 2019-25. He was awarded a medical redshirt after a foot injury limited […]
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Nuggets Notes: Draft, Free Agency, Alexander

HoopsRumors (Eli Cohen) — The Nuggets didn’t make a single selection across two nights of the 2025 NBA draft. However, just because there were no picks called for Denver didn’t mean there was no activity on the part of newly promoted general manager Ben Tenzer, writes Bennett Durando for the Denver Post. “We had our targets. We looked hard […]
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