6:09 PM ET EuroLeague forward/center Nicolo Melli has agreed to a two-year, $8 million free-agent deal with the New Orleans Pelicans, his agent, Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports, tells ESPN. Melli, 28, was the EuroLeague Finals’ top scorer for Fenerbahce in Turkey last season. He has turned down NBA offers in the past, but he
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6:07 PM ET Free-agent forward Harrison Barnes has agreed to a four-year, $85 million deal to stay with the Sacramento Kings, Excel Sports agent Jeff Schwartz tells ESPN. Barnes declined his $25.1 million player option for the 2019-20 season, becoming an unrestricted free agent. Sacramento acquired Barnes from Dallas at the trade deadline last season,
6:09 PM ET Free-agent center Jonas Valanciunas has agreed to a three-year, $45 million deal to return to the Memphis Grizzlies, his agent Leon Rose told ESPN. Valanciunas declined a $17.6 million player option on his 2019-20 contract, clearing the way to become an unrestricted free agent and negotiate a new, longer term deal. In
6:12 PM ET Free-agent guard JJ Redick has agreed to a two-year, $26.5 million deal to join the New Orleans Pelicans, league sources told ESPN. Redick joins a Pelicans roster that expects to compete for the playoffs despite the loss of Anthony Davis in a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers. Redick leaves the 76ers
6:10 PM ET Once free agency opens at 6 p.m. ET today, All-Star Khris Middleton plans to agree to a five-year, $178 million contract to return to the Milwaukee Bucks, league sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a player option on the fifth year, league sources said. Middleton has developed into the co-star to MVP
3:53 PM ET NBA free agency is almost here. Teams and players will be allowed to begin negotiations Sunday at 6 p.m. ET. The first two days of free agency in 2018 included Paul George and LeBron James making major decisions — what will Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and others do this year?
5:13 PM ET The Brooklyn Nets are making a clean sweep in free agency. The team will sign Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan, league sources tell ESPN. Durant will sign a four-year, $164 million deal, while Irving will sign for four years and $141 million, sources said. Durant is planning to make a
5:56 PM ET Once free agency opens at 6 p.m. ET, Brook Lopez is planning to agree to sign a four-year, $52 million deal to stay with the Milwaukee Bucks, league sources told ESPN. It’s possible that no single player changed his future more over the course of the past 12 months than Lopez did
8:58 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NBA set the salary cap for the 2019-20 season at $109.14 million, a raise of just over $7 million from last season. The tax level will be $132,627,000 and the minimum salary, which is 90 percent of the cap, is $98,226,000. All of those figures are
8:34 PM ET Six-time All-Star Kyrie Irving is meeting with the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday in New York with both sides motivated to reach a deal on a four-year, $141 million maximum contract, league sources told ESPN on Saturday. The free-agent guard is part of the Nets’ bold two-part plan to acquire Irving and All-NBA