2016 Free Agency Day

[yosemiteben]

The 2016 Free Agency Period commences in T-minus 36 hours.

Cho's presser when we lose all our FAs and all our trades fall through:

[fatlever]

top 50 free agents according to Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2016/06/27/top-50-nba-free-agents-kevin-durant-then-everybody-else/

Hornets Free Agents

Nic Batum - UFA, Bird Rights
Al Jefferson - UFA, Bird Rights
Courtney Lee - UFA, Bird Rights
Marvin Williams - UFA, Early Bird Rights
Jeremy Lin - UFA, Non-Bird Rights
Tyler Hansbrough - UFA - Non-Bird Rights
Troy Daniels - RFA, Bird Rights

[fatlever]

Alex Kennedy ‏@AlexKennedyNBA 1h1 hour ago

Many teams will pursue UFA Marvin Williams: Vet who's in his prime, great '3-and-D' guy, rebounder and just shot career-high 40.2% from 3.

[fatlever]

lets keep this thread for news, rumors, signings etc... and use the offseason thread for our wishful thinking ideas.

[fatlever]

http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nba-am-where-will-top-free-agents-land/

The latest rumors compiled for each major free agent.

[fatlever]

Woj Podcast about free agency
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/vertical-pod-with-chris-mannix--adrian-wojnarowski---frank-vogel-144313211.html

Mentions Batum coming back to Charlotte starting around 14:30

Bradford Coombs ‏@bradford_NBA 36m36 minutes ago

Woj also says Batum is focused on re-signing. Think we all know that. Also says he's not positive Batum will get the full max.

Bradford Coombs ‏@bradford_NBA 55m55 minutes ago

Woj says Marvin Williams is looking at $14M annually.

^now obviously that would be very difficult for the Hornets, since we can't go over 12(ish) w/out using cap space.

Bradford Coombs ‏@bradford_NBA 55m55 minutes ago

Also says Hornet's priorities are:
1) Batum
2) Marvin Williams

He mentions Charlotte alot in the 3-5 min range. Lin, Marvin etc...

[fatlever]

NBA Cap Strategist ‏@colezwicker 38m38 minutes ago Seattle, WA

Estimate 11 max contracts (LeBron, Durant, Horford, Conley, Drummond, DeRozan, Barnes, Batum, Parsons, Beal, Whiteside)

NBA Cap Strategist ‏@colezwicker 35m35 minutes ago Seattle, WA

Fournier/Dwight/Bazemore/Anderson/Williams/Biyombo are on that next tier of FAs likely to get $15-20M. Maybe Dwight gets 1 or 2 yr max

NBA Cap Strategist ‏@colezwicker 33m33 minutes ago Seattle, WA

Reasonable chance 5 teams operate over the cap: CLE, GSW, LAC, OKC and TOR. Will obviously depend on moratorium discussions

NBA Cap Strategist ‏@colezwicker 28m28 minutes ago Seattle, WA

Should also mention Wade could get maxed, especially if MIA strikes out elsewhere. Such a high variance for him $ wise

[fatlever]

76ers appears to be targeting Barnes in free agency.

[BlackOutBuzz]

Haywood killing it on FNZ. I love Kroeger, but he's trying to make the case that Lee and Al should be the second and third priorities in FA. Haywood says Marvin should be second priority without question. Talked about his role and how beloved he is by coaches, executives, and especially teammates. Mentioned that basically the whole team (and Brian Roberts) came back to town for Marvin's birthday last week.

Then he held back at first, but basically went in on "max player" Harrison Barnes. Said the strategy in the Finals last year when he was with the Cavs was to make Barnes beat them.

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[fatlever]

ESPN Charlotte ‏@ESPNCharlotte 3m3 minutes ago Charlotte, NC

"I think he's a coach killer & locker room killer, I don't see the value added at this point in his career" - Gminski on Dwight Howard

[fatlever]

NBA Cap Strategist
‏@colezwicker

That MKG extension is looking PRETTY GOOD right now

[BlackOutBuzz]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/747935502360322049[/tweet]

Potential cap-clearing move for us? Jack is gonna be this year's Ridnour.

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[euphorbus]

An article on destinations for Pau Gasol, especially Charlotte:

https://swarmandsting.com/2016/06/28/could-the-charlotte-hornets-be-a-possible-destination-for-pau-gasol/

[yosemiteben]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/747935502360322049[/tweet]

Potential cap-clearing move for us? Jack is gonna be this year's Ridnour.

Jack is turning 33 in October and coming back from a torn ACL. I would hope we could do better even in a cap clearing trade - Jack isn't close to worth the $6M he's owed.

[BlackOutBuzz]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/747935502360322049[/tweet]

Potential cap-clearing move for us? Jack is gonna be this year's Ridnour.

Jack is turning 33 in October and coming back from a torn ACL. I would hope we could do better even in a cap clearing trade - Jack isn't close to worth the $6M he's owed.

Oh I don't care about that. Just cut him for pure cap space.

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[yosemiteben]

Ah, ok. How much is $6M cap space worth to us? A future contingent 2nd?

[BlackOutBuzz]

Ah, ok. How much is $6M cap space worth to us? A future contingent 2nd?

I'd say roughly 1 Belinelli.

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[yosemiteben]

Ah, ok. How much is $6M cap space worth to us? A future contingent 2nd?

I'd say roughly 1 Belinelli.

So basically we traded the 22 for $6M in cap space that will still cost $6M from our bank account via the buyout? Why not just sell it outright, probably wouldn't have been too hard.

If we send Belinelli we need something in return.

[euphorbus]

Second-tier free agents, including Courtney Lee. Some of these guys are pretty good players:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fancy-stats/wp/2016/06/28/miss-out-on-a-big-fish-in-nba-free-agency-heres-what-your-backup-plan-should-be/

[euphorbus]

The Kings may go after Lee:

http://www.hashtagbasketball.com/sacramento-kings/content/free-agency-2016-the-kings-need-more-guards