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Kevin Durant, DeAndre
Tobias Harris Remains With 76ers On Five-Year Deal
TOBIAS HARRIS
The Philadelphia 76ers will retain at least one of their two big free agents.
Forward Tobias Harris has agreed to stay with the Sixers on a five-year, $180 million max deal.
Harris actually saves the 76ers a bit of money in taking this deal, as he could have made $190 million.
Brook Lopez Reportedly Will Stay With Bucks On Four-Year Deal
BROOK LOPEZ
The Milwaukee Bucks are looking to run it back next sea- son and will likely be doing so with at least Brook Lopez.
Lopez is set to get a four- year, $52 million contract from the Bucks when free agency begins. The Bucks were expected all along to try and re-sign Lopez.
Lopez was signed by Mil- waukee at a bargain price of $3.38 million last offseason and fit in perfectly with the team. He shot a career-best 36.5 percent on threes, averag- ing 12.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.
Damian Lillard,
Jordan Will Join Kyrie
Blazers Agree To
Irving On Nets
Supermax Extension
The Brooklyn Nets have pulled off the signings of the summer.
Free agent forward Kevin Durant announced on Instagram that he will join the Nets in free agency.
DeAndre Jordan will be joining Durant and Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn.
Durant will almost cer- tainly miss all of next season, but the move will still lead to a huge power shift in the NBA. The Nets are already adding Kyrie Irving to the mix, and pairing him with Durant will make them an instant title contender once
KEVIN DURANT AND DEANDRE JORDAN
they’re able to play together. Durant is set to receive a four-year, $164 million deal from Brooklyn, while Irving
will get $141 million.
Damian Lillard has agreed to a supermax contract with the Portland Trail Blazers worth $196 million over four years, reports Brian Wind- horst of ESPN.
Also known as the Desig- nated Veteran Player Excep- tion, the supermax allows Lillard to receive a substan- tial increase in salary over the next five years.
DAMIAN LILLARD
Lillard’s contract in-
Andre Iguodala
cludes a player option for the final year of the contract.
Warriors Acquiring
Reportedly Traded To Grizzlies For Pick
D’Angelo Russell In
The Golden State Warriors have broken up as we knew them, but they will be retool- ing for the 2019-2020 season.
The Warriors have lost Kevin Durant in free agency to the Brooklyn Nets, but they made sure to get back D’An- gelo Russell on a sign-and- trade deal. They’re reportedly signing Russell to a four-year max contract. To make the money work in the deal, they needed to shed salary to stay below the hard salary cap and were able to offload Andre Iguodala to Memphis.
The Warriors traded
Sign-And-Trade
The Golden State War- riors may have lost Kevin Durant, but they are gain- ing some ice in their veins.
The Warriors have ac- quired All-Star guard D’An- gelo Russell from the Brooklyn Nets on a four- year, $117 million max deal. The deal will be part of a sign-and-trade, as Durant expressed his intention to sign with Brooklyn earlier in the day.
ANDRE IGUODALA
Iguodala and a 2024 first- round pick to the Grizzlies as part of the deal. The pick re- portedly is top-4 protected in 2024, top-1 protected in 2025, and unprotected in 2026.
Klay Thompson
Gets Max $158
D’ANGELO RUSSELL
Kristaps Porzingis
Agrees To $190M
Million Contract
Deal With Warriors
From Mavericks
Klay Thompson has a new reason to smile after the devastation of his ACL tear in the NBA Finals and the heartbreak of a champi- onship series loss just min- utes later.
The five-time All-Star and three-time NBA champion has reportedly agreed to a five-year, $190 million deal with the Golden State War- riors.
Thompson is expected to miss a significant portion of next season after suffering the injury when he landed
KLAY THOMPSON
awkwardly after a dunk at- tempt in the third quarter of Game 6.
Kristaps Porzingis is getting paid.
Porzingis and the Dallas Mavericks agreed to a five- year, $158 million contract, marking the largest contract in franchise history.
This deal should come as no surprise as it was likely agreed upon when the Maver- icks first acquired Kristaps in their trade with the New York Knicks.
Porzingis probably would not have agreed to such a trade without that as- surance, and the Mavericks
KRISTAPS PORZINGIS
wouldn’t have given up two future first-round picks if they didn’t plan to sign him long term.
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