The New York Knicks are signing forward DaQuan Jeffries on a training camp deal, sources tell The Athletic’s Shams Charania
Jeffries spent parts of the last three seasons with the Kings, Rockets and Grizzlies.
Izaiah Brockington signs a two-way contract with New Orleans Pelicans.
Former Iowa State averaged 16.9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals for the Cyclones last season.
Brockington, who also had college stops at Penn State and St. Bonaventure, would’ve likely been a second-round pick without the knee injury. Brockington averaged 16.9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals for the Cyclones last season.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 12, 2022
ATLANTA – The Atlanta Hawks have signed guard Jarrett Culver to a two-way contract, the team announced today. Per team policy, terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Culver comes to Atlanta from the Memphis Grizzlies where he appeared in 37 games this past season, averaging 3.5 points and 1.3 rebounds in 9.1 minutes. The 6-6 guard saw action in three postseason games with the Grizzlies, tallying 2.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 7.3 minutes.
He also saw action in four games (all starts) with the Memphis Hustle, NBA G League affiliate of the Grizzlies, notching 18.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.3 blocks in 33.1 minutes.
Drafted by the Phoenix Suns with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, Culver’s draft rights were traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves on July 6, 2019. Over his three-year career, the Lubbock, Texas native has suited up for the Timberwolves (2019-21) and Grizzlies (2021-22), appearing in 134 games (42 starts), averaging 6.6 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 17.5 minutes (.401 FG%).
Culver played collegiately at Texas Tech for two seasons (2017-19), seeing action in 75 games (58 starts), registering 14.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.3 steals in 29.5 minutes (.459 FG%, .341 3FG%, .687 FT%).
The 2019 Big 12 Player of the Year led the Red Raiders to the 2019 NCAA Championship Game as a sophomore, their first-ever Final Four and championship game appearance, en route to being named to the Final Four All-Tournament Team.
In his freshman season, Culver guided Texas Tech to its first Elite Eight in program history. Culver, who finished his Red Raider career with 1,119 total points, became the first player in Texas Tech history to pour in at least 1,000 points as a freshman-sophomore.
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— Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) September 12, 2022
Stephen Curry confirmed that the Golden State Warriors had some internal talks about a return of Kevin Durant.
Kevin Durant requested trade from the Nets early in the offseason but after a few weeks he decided to remain with the goal of winning the NBA championship with Brooklyn.
Per Rolling Stones, As Curry told Rolling Stone on Aug. 9, three days after Durant’s reported ultimatum to the Nets’ ownership: “There was a conversation internally amongst us about ‘If he was available, would you?’ Every team has those conversations, and obviously in our situation, they’re gonna call me and ask me, ‘How do you feel about it?’
“I was never hesitant. The idea of playing with KD and knowing who he is as a person, from our history in those three years, I think KD’s a really good dude. I think he is misunderstood. I think he has had certain things happen in his life that hurt his ability to trust people around him, in a sense of making him feel safe at all times. So all of those things, I understand, having played with him and gotten to know him. I love that dude.
“And if you said, ‘Oh, KD’s coming back, and we’re gonna play with him,’ I had so much fun playing with him those three years, I’d be like, ‘Hell, yeah!’ Then you have to think: What does that actually mean? What does it look like? You tell me I’m playing with [current Warriors teammates Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, and Draymond Green], I’m like, ‘Hell, yeah!’ There’s all types of emotion and things that happen to the league. And if anybody’s saying that you wouldn’t entertain that conversation — no disrespect to anybody on our team — but you don’t know how things work. But you also understand, like, if we run this thing back, I’ve got complete confidence in my team that we can win it again, as constructed.
“So, all those things were true. And it started with me wanting to play with KD at the beginning. Yeah, it’s about winning, it’s about having fun, playing the game of basketball. And that was part of the reaction of, like, ‘Yeah, it’d be amazing.’ What does that actually mean?”
Utah Jazz’s Croatian forward Bojan Bogdanovic is one of the players who could leave Salt Lake City via trade before the next deadline.
Several franchises including the Lakers, Knicks, Suns and Mavs are interested in the player, per John Gambadoro.
Bogdanovic, who will become a free agent at the end of next season, is currently among the top 10 Eurobasket scorers with 18.4 points per game.
Last year the Croatian forward averaged 18.1 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.
The New Orleans Pelicans announced that the team has signed guard Dereon Seabron to a two-way contract. Additionally, the Pelicans have also signed guard John Petty Jr. and guard/forward Daeqwon Plowden.
The Cleveland Cavs have signed Chandler Vaudrin and Jamorko Pickett to training camp contracts, Chris Fedor reports.
Vaudrin seriously injured his knee in Summer League 2021.
Pickett spent his rookie season as a Two-Way Player for the Detroit Pistons.
Charles Barkley talked about Donovan Mitchell and New York Kniks in TNT Nba:
“I’m gonna give you inside information. I actually had this conversation last night with World Wide Wes at dinner,” Barkley said. “I said, Wes, why didn’t y’all make the trade? He says, ‘Oh man. Don’t go by the media stuff. [The Jazz] wanted my wife, my kids.’
“… He says, ‘We wanted the deal, obviously,’ but he said, ‘They wanted my wife, they wanted my kids, they wanted my grandkids. They were just trying to rip somebody off.’ So he says, ‘Dude, we’re gonna have to pass on it.’ And I give those guys credit, because you can’t give away everything.”
Source: CBS
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— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) September 9, 2022
It has been reported that Knicks and Jazz explored potential three-way trade deals around Donovan Mitchell, but those ideas never included the Los Angeles Lakers as reported by ESPN’s Brian Windhorst. The only trade scenario that the Lakers appear to have seriously entertained involving Westbrook and future draft picks was for Kyrie Irving when he was potentially available from the Brooklyn Nets
The Knicks would have likely had to send out Evan Fournier to a third team to make the math work in a RJ Barrett version of the trade
The Chicago Bulls are signing Malcolm Hill to a two-way contract.
Hill averaged 3.4 points in 10.4 minutes over 16 games last season for the Bulls.
The news was reported by Shams Charania.
The Dallas Mavericks are signing Maxi Kleber to a three-year, $33 million contract extension.
The German forward’s new deal will start in 2023-2024 and will run through 2025-2026.
The news was reported by Shams Charania.
Andre Iguodala remains undecided on his future as reported The Athletic.
Iguodala appeared in 31 games last season with Warriors.
Free agent C Montrezl Harrell is signing two-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, including a player option, as reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski
ESPN Sources: Free agent C Montrezl Harrell is signing two-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, including a player option. Harrell brings more toughness to a team searching for it this offseason. He was Sixth Man of the Year with Doc Rivers/Sam Cassell in 2019-2020 w/ Clippers.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 6, 2022
The Portland Trail Blazers have reached an agreement with Devontae Cacok, Shams Charania reports.
Cacok, who will sign an Exhibit 10 contract, last year played 15 games with the San Antonio Spurs.
Jodie Meeks retires at 35. Meeks has played 18 games with the Raptors 905 in G League last season.
Per USA Basketball, This past season, his Toronto connections led him to play 18 games for Raptors 905 in the NBA G League. Jodie Meeks also played this summer in the Big3, but he says he has “officially retired” from pro ball, making this opportunity a little more special. “I’m young, but in basketball, I’m a little older,” Meeks said matter-of-factly. “I’m no spring chicken anymore. But that’s OK. I can still move, I still feel like I can still play. And obviously I’m out here doing well. So for my career, it’s definitely been a good one and this will be the icing on the cake.
Meeks’ next hoops adventure will be as an assistant coach with the Birmingham Squadron, the New Orleans Pelicans’ G League affiliate. “Obviously, you want to play as long as possible and then when it’s over, it’s hard to just give it up cold turkey,” Meeks said. “So you want to stay around the game, whether that’s broadcasting or coaching or front office. But I felt like coaching was my calling card because I felt like I have so much to give to the younger generation on just the mental aspect of basketball — shooting, coverages, all those types of things.”
The New York Knicks made it a priority to keep Quentin Grimes in any Donovan Mitchell deal, sources told David Aldridge of The Athletic.
Grimes averaged 6.0 ppg and 2.0 rpg in his rookie season, with The Athletic also adding that New York wasn’t fully convinced in giving RJ Barrett a contract extension
The Boston Celtics are able to apply for a $3.2 million Disabled Player Exception for Danilo Gallinari, according to Bobby Marks of ESPN. Italian forward suffered a torn ACL while playing for his national team last week.
Celtics can sign, trade, or claim a player on a one-year contract if they have an open roster spot.
After Cleveland Cavaliers’ trade for Donovan Mitchell, the team won’t be able to offer Evan Mobley a rookie scale max contract in 2024.
Cleveland is impossibilitated because they already have two players with designated rookie scale max contracts in Mitchell and Darius Garland
The Los Angeles Lakers would have to part ways with at least one first-round pick in order to trade Russell Westbrook, sources told Dan Woike of the Los Angeles Times.
Lakers would have to add an additional first rounder if they want rotation players in return
Jerome Robinson is signing a training camp deal with the Golden State Warriors, Adam Schefter reports.
The Boston Celtics announced that after further evaluations Danilo Gallinari has been diagnosed with a torn ACL in left knee.
The same knee he tore back in 2013.
The Phoenix Suns are interested in Bojan Bogdanovic, as reported by Arizona Sports.
The Jazz have traded Donovan Mitchell on Thursday and are expected to trade also other players like Bogdanovic, Mike Conley, Jordan Clarkson, Rudy Gay and Malik Beasley.
The Croatian is coming off another productive season. The veteran forward averaged 18.1 points on 45/39/86 shooting splits. The Suns have looked at various ways to add depth around a very solid starting group. Bogdanovic is on an expiring $19.5 million contract, which would leave Phoenix without any long-term salary obligations beyond this season.
Cam Reddish is looking for a change of scenery away from the New York Knicks, as reported by Marc Berman.
The Lakers have been linked with a trade for Reddish in recent days.
Players package for the Donovan Mitchell trade is composed of Lauri Markkanen, Collin Sexton and Ochai Agbaji, all going from Cleveland to Utah, as widely reported
Sexton agreed to a 4-year, $72M contract in a sign-and-trade to join the Jazz
The Cleveland Cavalers have traded for Utah Jazz All Star guard Donovan Mitchell, as first reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski
In a surprising trade, Utah receives three unprotected first round draft picks and two pick swaps
Toronto Raptors signs Josh Jackson as reported by RealGm.
Jackson averaged last season 6.4 points and 2.8 rebounds with Pistons and Kings.
Andre Miller will be the coach of G League team Grand Rapids Drive, as reported by ESPN.
Miller replaces another former NBA player Jason Terry, who accepted a job with the Utah Jazz.
Per ESPN, Miller, who missed only three games in his 17-year career, had been coaching at the Balboa School, a post-graduate prep school in San Diego since 2020. He retired in 2017 as No. 11 on the NBA’s career assists list, playing for nine NBA teams, including the Nuggets.
JR Holden to become General Manager of the Nets G-League affiliate.
Former EuroLeague star is expected to be promoted to fill the position Matt Riccardi had before he left to Dallas.
Former Euroleague star player JR Holden is expected to be promoted to fill the position Matt Riccardi had before he left to Dallas. This would include becoming General Manager of the Nets G-League affiliate, I am told
— Emiliano Carchia (@Carchia) August 29, 2022
Charlotte Hornets targets Elfrid Payton as reported by Marc Stein.
American point guard averaged 10.8 minutes last season with Suns in 52 Nba games.
Italbasket and Boston Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari left FIBA World Cup Qualifiers game against Georgia with a left knee injury.
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Initial exams show that ACL of Gallinari’s left knee is stable. The Italian player will have an MRI on Sunday to fully understand the injury he suffered.
The news was reported by Shams Charania.
This is what Italbasket head coach Gianmarco Pozzecco said Gallinari is the best Italian player ever and he deserves to play Eurobasket at home (Milan will host one of the first round groups).
“Gallinari is maybe the best Italian player ever. I will pray for him. With him we could have won Eurobasket, but I am not sorry for that. I am sorry because he may not play a tournament he deserves to play” Pozzecco said.
