4:17 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Free-agent guard Shabazz Napier has agreed to a two-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets, league sources told ESPN. The deal includes a team option on the second year, league sources said. Napier’s pro career blossomed in the past two seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, where he averaged a career-best
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2:19 PM ET The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed veteran big man Channing Frye to a one-year, $2.4 million deal, league sources confirmed to ESPN. Frye, 35, was traded from the Cavs to the Los Angeles Lakers in February as part of Cleveland’s dramatic roster overhaul in an attempt to change the course of their floundering
1:04 AM ET The Dallas Mavericks and guard Yogi Ferrell are “on the 1-yard line” of getting a deal done, a source told ESPN. The Mavs rescinded their $2.9 million qualifying offer to Ferrell on Friday, making him an unrestricted free agent. The source said, however, that the team considered the qualifying offer “a placeholder”
12:19 AM ET Andre SnellingsESPN LAS VEGAS — A lot of attention has been devoted to Deandre Ayton this summer, and for good reason. The No. 1 overall pick for the Phoenix Suns has flashed franchise-changing talent. But the Suns fielded a Las Vegas Summer League squad that features three other lottery picks from the
4:44 PM ET Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Jimmy Butler has turned down a four-year extension worth close to $110 million, a league source confirmed to ESPN. “We offered him the extension and they’ve met and come back to us and said they’re really appreciative of it, they appreciate that we got to them right away and
4:46 PM ET Which players and picks are on the move? We have a rundown of the latest trades here. Draft assets | Summer of LeBron | Rumors, buzz | Woj’s latest 2018-19 trades Nuggets send Wilson Chandler to 76ers Philadelphia 76ers get:Wilson Chandler and a future second-round pick Denver Nuggets get:Cash considerations Pre-free agency
12:10 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Free-agent guard Isaiah Thomas has agreed to a one-year, $2 million deal with the Denver Nuggets, league sources told ESPN. Thomas met with Tim Connelly, Denver’s president of basketball operations, and coach Michael Malone in Las Vegas in recent days, continuing to talk and text with them about a role
2:01 PM ET Former New York Knicks big man Charles Oakley was arrested in Las Vegas on Sunday for committing — or attempting to commit — a fraudulent act in a gaming establishment, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said in a statement provided to ESPN on Thursday. Oakley was arrested by Nevada Gaming Control Board
8:06 AM ET Oddsmakers are giving Charles Barkley a shot to win this week’s American Century celebrity golf tournament — a 6,000-to-1 shot. Barkley has the longest odds in the field for the annual tournament, which begins Friday in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder, the three-time defending tournament champion, is the
11:35 PM ET Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said Wednesday that LeBron James’ departure from the Eastern Conference doesn’t change his expectations for his team, nor does it ease the road to claiming the conference. Speaking to Boston reporters after the summer league Celtics’ offday workout, Ainge dismissed the notion that the