Spencer Dinwiddie is eligible for an extension later this offseason and there’s support within the Nets organization to add years to his current contract, according to Ian Begley of SNY.TV.
Dinwiddie is entering his walk year with a cap hit of $20,357,143. After being reacquired from Dallas last season, Dinwiddie started 26 regular-season games and averaged 16.5 points and 9.1 assists in 35.3 minutes.
We have more from the Eastern Conference:
- The Magic have pushed back their decision regarding Bol Bol‘s contract, Jamie Seh of WKMG-TV tweets. Bol has a non-guaranteed $2.2MM salary for next season and the original deadline to guarantee his deal was Friday. If they don’t guarantee his contract, he’ll end up on waivers.
- By trading for Joe Harris and his expiring contract rather than pursuing a high-level free agent, the Pistons are protecting the cap space for next summer while avoiding a potentially bad contract, according to James Edwards III of The Athletic. Handing a huge offer sheet to restricted free agent Cameron Johnson, as had been anticipated, would have meant overpaying for a role player. They could easily have $60MM in cap space to play with next summer for a better free agent market. Detroit won’t give up a player to the Nets in the trade for Harris, who will provide shooting and wing depth.
- Agent Mark Bartelstein said Harris has spoken with Pistons GM Troy Weaver, coach Monty Williams and executive Arn Tellem, Mark Medina tweets. According to Bartelstein, the Pistons have wanted Harris “for a couple of years” and “he’ll have a great role there.”
- The Heat only have veteran’s minimum contracts to offer to free agents, Barry Jackson of Miami Herald tweets. The cap-strapped Heat don’t have a trade lined up to clear enough cap space to use exceptions within league cap rules.
- While the Sixers aren’t expected to pursue a rookie scale extension with Tyrese Maxey, they haven’t made him available in trade discussions, Kyle Neubeck of Philly Voice tweets.
The Pistons are taking on almost $20m a year for someone who will be a backup guard. Why? This means none of the free agents we’re considering Detroit I guess. We always have a ton of cap space.
They are doing it to avoid signing a free agent for multiple years. They want to have cap space for next season when they’ll have much more cap space. The free agents in 2024 are much better options than this years class.
Bojan makes 20 a year… he gone
Tobias Harris can be a very nice piece for the Detroit Pistons.
I take exception with the idea that scam is just a role player. He started in every game he played for two different teams last year. He’s a guy on the verge of being a star caliber player.
Bol won’t last long without a team if he’s waived.
I not sure I can believe what Kyle Neubeck writes because he once said he wouldn’t take Jayson Tatum if he had a top 10 pick that year in the draft