The Pacers have waived veteran center Al Jefferson, Keith Smith of RealGM tweets.
Jefferson had a partial guarantee of $4MM on his $10MM salary for next season. Indiana gains $6MM in cap space by the move and could use the stretch provision to create even more room for thie summer.
Though the Pacers declined their $4.33MM option on Lance Stephenson‘s contract, they have added plenty of salary in recent days. They guaranteed Bojan Bogdanovic‘s $10.5MM salary and Darren Collison‘s $10MM deal.
Indiana also made a surprising three-year, $22MM free agent splurge for forward Doug McDermott and agreed to terms with first-round pick Aaron Holiday.
Jefferson, 33, has played for Indiana the past two seasons. He saw spot duty in 36 games last season as the No. 3 center, averaging 7.0 PPG and 4.0 RPG in 13.4 MPG.
Celtics return on min deal?
If they have the money, give an offer to Julius Randle.
I’d love for Big Al to come back to Charlotte as the teams 3rd center behind Zeller and Hernangomez.
He might be behind Zeller. He can still score when he plays.
He’s got that old school post game that’s beautiful to watch. He had some really good years in Charlotte.
Golden State here he comes
I think he could still be the 2nd center in Charlotte, behind Willy of course, Zeller ain’t much use really, definitely he is not starting quality.
Zeller starts. Hernangomez backs him up. Big Al is insurance at the 3rd center.
Expecting him to sign at GSW for vet min.