2:06 AM ET Free-agent guard Patrick Beverley has agreed to a three-year, $40 million deal to stay with the LA Clippers, his agent, Kevin Bradbury, told ESPN. #CLIPPERNATION 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 https://t.co/oDNIUxQ0fL — Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) July 1, 2019 Beverley was one of the most pursued guards in the marketplace. His tenacious, versatile play had a huge
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1:19 AM ET Denver Nuggets star guard Jamal Murray has agreed to a five-year, $170 million contract extension, agent Mike George told The Athletic. Murray, the Nuggets’ first-round pick in 2016 out of Kentucky, will play out his rookie deal next season. When the rookie max contract begins in 2020, he will make $29.3 million,
5:53 PM ET The Golden State Warriors and Brooklyn Nets are finalizing a sign-and-trade deal, delivering All-Star guard D’Angelo Russell on a four-year, $117 million maximum contract to the Warriors, league sources told ESPN. The deal is expected to be completed Saturday, when the NBA’s signing moratorium ends, sources said. The Warriors will include a
1:19 AM ET Golden State and Brooklyn are trying to finalize a sign-and-trade deal, delivering All-Star guard D’Angelo Russell on a four-year, $117 million maximum contract to the Warriors, league sources told ESPN on Sunday. To create the salary-cap flexibility to turn Kevin Durant‘s free-agent deal with the Nets into the acquisition of Russell, the
8:18 AM ET You’ve just witnessed the most intense transactional day in NBA history. Actually, it was more like a quarter of a day. Amid the flurry of Sunday’s spending and sign-and-trades, it might’ve been easy to miss that something potentially terrific happened: The league just got super competitive. Kawhi Leonard holds the favorite chip
7:23 PM ET The Philadelphia 76ers have started discussions with agent Rich Paul on a contract extension for All-Star guard Ben Simmons, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Simmons, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 draft, earned Rookie of the Year honors in 2018 after sitting out a year with a broken right
1:50 AM ET The Miami Heat are finalizing a sign-and-trade deal with the Philadelphia 76ers to acquire star guard Jimmy Butler, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Miami is sending guard Josh Richardson to Philadelphia as part of the deal, sources said. The other parts of the deal were still being negotiated Sunday night. The
7:09 PM ET The Dallas Mavericks have agreed on five-year, $158 million deal with power forward Kristaps Porzingis and a three-year, $33 million extension with center Dwight Powell, sources told ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. Porzingis, a restricted free agent, was expected to re-sign with the Mavericks, who had acquired him in a January blockbuster with the
12:08 AM ET Three years ago, the Brooklyn Nets were as dead as any NBA team has ever been. They had just wrapped a 21-win 2015-16 season. They had no young players of consequence. They had few draft assets; the Boston Celtics owned most of them through 2019 thanks to a trade that was and
11:17 PM ET The mystery team is unwrapped: Five-time All-Star center Al Horford has agreed to a four-year, $109 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, agent Jason Glushon told ESPN on Sunday. Horford, 33, is leaving the Boston Celtics to join the Atlantic Division rival and fortify the Sixers as one of the NBA’s best