The NBA’s free agent market remained active on Saturday after a busy Friday, but the most significant headlines of the day involved players who were already under contract.
Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard made the day’s biggest news by submitting a long-awaited trade request to the team. Lillard is reportedly focused on landing with the Heat, but Portland will survey the market, and there are questions about whether Miami will the assets to get a deal done without involving a third team.
Meanwhile, Saturday’s two most lucrative contract agreements were extensions rather than free agents deals. The Hornets and guard LaMelo Ball reached an agreement on a five-year, maximum-salary rookie scale extension, while Kings center Domantas Sabonis agreed to a renegotiation and extension that will add four years and $195MM in new money to his deal.
Listed below are the rest of the highlights from around the NBA on Saturday.
Free agent agreements
Most of these deals aren’t yet official, so the reported terms could change — or agreements could fall through altogether. Generally speaking though, teams and players are on track to finalize these agreements sometime after the moratorium ends on July 6.
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Note: Some of these salary figures may include options, incentives, or non-guaranteed money.
Dillon Brooks, Rockets agree to four-year, $80MM contract (sign-and-trade).- Max Strus, Cavaliers agree to four-year, $63MM contract (sign-and-trade).
- Austin Reaves, Lakers agree to four-year, $53.8MM contract.
- Donte DiVincenzo, Knicks agree to four-year, $50MM contract.
- Brook Lopez, Bucks agree to two-year, $48MM contract.
- D’Angelo Russell, Lakers agree to two-year, $37MM contract.
- Jock Landale, Rockets agree to four-year, $32MM contract.
- Moritz Wagner, Magic agree to two-year, $16MM contract.
- Dwight Powell, Mavericks agree to three-year, $12MM contract.
- Jalen McDaniels, Raptors agree to two-year, $9.3MM contract.
- Russell Westbrook, Clippers agree to two-year, $7.9MM contract.
- Jeff Green, Rockets agree to one-year, $6MM contract.
- Ty Jerome, Cavaliers agree to two-year, $5MM contract.
- Thomas Bryant, Heat agree to two-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Jaxson Hayes, Lakers agree to two-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Patrick Beverley, Sixers agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Dante Exum, Mavericks agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Alex Len, Kings agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Sandro Mamukelashvili, Spurs agree to one-year, minimum-salary contract.
- Jack White, Thunder agree to two-year contract.
- Jae Crowder, Bucks agree to one-year contract.
- Dennis Smith Jr., Nets agree to one-year contract.
- Heat sign Orlando Robinson to minimum-salary contract.
Trades
- Knicks agree to trade Obi Toppin to Pacers for two second-round picks.
- Rockets agree to trade Kenyon Martin Jr. to Clippers for two second-round picks.
- Rockets agree to trade Usman Garuba, TyTy Washington, two second-round picks, and cash to the Hawks for the draft rights to Alpha Kaba.
- Spurs to acquire Cedi Osman, Lamar Stevens, and a second-round pick; Heat to acquire a second-round pick in the Max Strus sign-and-trade agreement with the Cavaliers.
- Rockets to acquire Dillon Brooks in a sign-and-trade agreement that includes Josh Christopher going to the Grizzlies and Patty Mills going from the Nets to an unknown team. There will be more details to come on this one.
- Jazz agree to trade Damian Jones to Cavaliers.
Other notable deals
- Vasilije Micic, Thunder agree to three-year, $23.5MM contract.
- Sasha Vezenkov, Kings agree to three-year, $20MM contract.
- Several first-round picks signed their rookie scale contracts, including No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama of the Spurs.
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