Kelly Oubre‘s two-year deal with the Hornets, which was completed using cap space, is worth $12MM and $12.6MM in year two, tweets Keith Smith of Spotrac. That second year is only partially guaranteed for $5MM, however, so the agreement includes just $17MM in total guaranteed money.
Meanwhile, Ish Smith‘s two-year contract with the Hornets uses most of the club’s room exception, according to Smith (Twitter link). It starts at $4.5MM in 2021/22, while the $4.725MM salary for ’22/23 is non-guaranteed.
Here’s more on the Hornets:
- LiAngelo Ball, who is playing for the Hornets’ Summer League team in Las Vegas, said he’s “very thankful” for the opportunity and isn’t taking it for granted, as Rod Boone of SI.com writes. Ball was supposed to play for Oklahoma City’s G League affiliate in March 2020 before the pandemic stopped the season. He impressed Charlotte’s brass while working out in the gym with his brother LaMelo Ball in recent months, Boone writes.
- Ball’s performance in Las Vegas is one of a handful of Hornets Summer League storylines to watch, according to Jonathan M. Alexander of The Charlotte Observer, who says he’ll also be keeping an eye on James Bouknight‘s three-point shooting and how much time Kai Jones spends at center.
- In case you missed it, the Hornets are still believed to be eyeing restricted free agent Lauri Markkanen, despite no longer having the cap room necessary to sign him to an offer sheet.
Before free agency Oubre was saying he wanted $25 million a year now we find out his contract is about half of that and basic only a 1 year deal. Doesn’t sound like he got the offers he claimed from 8 teams. Oubre has a lot to prove this year.
Hopefully he’s making it up in Car Max commercial royalties.
I know how did he get that gig.
What’s crazy is if Ball looks relatively decent in certain areas, I could actually see him getting invited to their training camp b/c they could theoretically use shooting at that position in their depth
Nevermind. Dude has no defensive awareness whatsoever lol, and I’m pretty sure he can only dribble right, and he really runs the floor kind of weird
I thought he looked great in both games, dude isn’t a PG his touches are limited and he did a lot with them. I lived the way he grabbed his own rebound on the missed three and got a clean floater on it last night, really proved he will hustle. He isn’t a good defender, but that can improve and he is worth a look for the deadly 3 shooting alone. He is also grabbing plenty of steals and moving much faster than was expected.