T.J. McConnell‘s agreed-upon four-year, $45MM extension, which doesn’t kick in till the 2025/26, may affect the Pacers’ upcoming choices concerning Myles Turner and Bennedict Mathurin, in response to Dustin Dopirak of the Indianapolis Star.
The McConnell and Andrew Nembhard (three-year, $58.6MM) extensions may put the Pacers nearer to the luxurious tax threshold and prohibitive tax aprons. Turner is an unrestricted free agent subsequent summer time, whereas Mathurin shall be eligible for a rookie scale extension.
We now have extra from the Jap Convention:
- The Nets may dictate subsequent summer time’s free company and commerce markets, Brian Lewis of the New York Publish notes. They may open up as a lot as $70MM in cap area, plus they might management as many as 4 first-round picks in a loaded draft. The Nets even have the league’s second-biggest commerce exception at $23.3MM.
- Mavericks former majority proprietor Mark Cuban apologized to Jalen Brunson for a perceived jab on the Knicks guard over Brunson’s 2022 free company, Peter Botte of the New York Publish relays. The trade betweeen Cuban and Brunson occurred throughout The Roommates podcast (video hyperlink). Cuban mentioned in April 2023 that negotiations to retain Brunson “went south, when (father Rick Brunson) took over, or the dad and mom took over.” Brunson signed with the Knicks shortly after they employed his father as an assisant coach. “The one factor that I … didn’t like about the entire state of affairs was when Mark mentioned, ‘When the dad and mom acquired concerned, that’s when issues acquired messy,’” Brunson mentioned. “In order that was the one factor that I used to be like, I type of was like, ‘Rattling that was a bit jab.’” Cuban replied, “I apologize, if it put you in a sure manner, that wasn’t the intention. Nevertheless it was laborious to cope with. It was a singular negotiation in lots of other ways.”
- The Cavaliers will maintain their first week of coaching camp on the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., in response to a group press launch. Cleveland will change into the primary NBA group to carry coaching camp at IMG Academy. It’s going to even be the Cavaliers’ first distant coaching camp since making ready for the 2004/05 season at Capital College in Columbus, OH.
