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NBA Sets Estimated Average Salary, Early Bird Exception For 2020/21

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As for the Early Bird exception, it represents the starting salary that teams can offer to their own free agents using Early Bird rights, assuming that amount is greater than 175% of the player's previous salary. … If their own teams want to re-sign them using Early Bird rights, the offers won't be able to exceed $10,047,450 in year one.

Hoops Rumors Glossary: Gilbert Arenas Provision

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At the time, the Warriors only had Early Bird rights on Arenas, who signed an offer sheet with the Wizards starting at about $8.5MM. … The Heat had Early Bird rights on Johnson, who had only been in the NBA for two seasons.

Clippers Interested In Rajon Rondo

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The Lakers will hold Rondo’s Early Bird rights, giving the team the ability to offer him a starting salary worth up to approximately $10MM (105% of the league-average salary in the previous season), though contracts signed using the Early Bird exception must run for at least two years, without a second-year option.

Northwest Notes: Conley, D. Jones, Anthony, Thunder

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That could allow Utah to use Bird Rights to re-sign Jordan Clarkson and add players with its mid-level and biannual exceptions without going into tax territory. … Jazz guard Mike Conley isn't expected to exercise an early termination option on his $34.5MM salary for next season, but Eric Walden of The Salt Lake Tribune suggests that he and the team could both benefit if he did.

2020 NBA Offseason Preview: Houston Rockets

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Note: Mbah a Moute won’t have any form of Bird rights because he was signed as a substitute player. … Nearly identical $41MM salaries for James Harden and Russell Westbrook will prevent the Rockets from opening up any cap space this offseason, barring a major roster shakeup.

Rajon Rondo Expected To Decline 2020/21 Option

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The Lakers will hold Rondo's Early Bird rights, giving the team the ability to offer him a starting salary worth up to approximately $10MM (105% of the league-average salary in the previous season). … That would allow for a one-year deal (with or without a second-year option) and would give the 34-year-old veto rights on any trade, though his salary would be limited to about $3.08MM (120% of the minimum).

2020 NBA Offseason Preview: Oklahoma City Thunder

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Note: Hall won’t have any form of Bird rights because he was signed as a substitute player. … Dipping into their cache of future first-round picks just to get off Adams' or Paul's contracts a year early would be a misuse of those resources.

Five Non-Bird Free Agents Who May Be Difficult To Re-Sign

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Every player who finishes a season as a member of an NBA roster gets some form of Bird rights as a free agent, allowing his team to go over the cap to re-sign him. … Green was underwhelming during his brief stint with Utah early in the 2019/20 season, but he thrived in Houston, averaging 12.2 PPG on .564/.354/.857 shooting in 18 games (22.6 MPG) as part of the club's micro-ball lineup.

Connelly Would “Love To See” Millsap Retire As Nugget

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The Nuggets hold Millsap's Bird rights and can offer him any amount up to the max, but fellow free agent forward Jerami Grant will likely be the team's first priority. … Singer notes that any offer from the Nuggets would reflect the fact that the Millsap wasn't as effective in the playoffs as he was early in the season.

Pacers’ Oladipo, Turner Viewed As Offseason Trade Candidates?

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Whichever team holds Oladipo's Bird rights when he reaches free agency will have the ability to offer him the most money and years, so if he's not confident in the Pacers' ability to compete for titles over the next several years, it wouldn't be a surprise to see him start pushing for a deal to a preferred destination. … A series of subsequent stories in July named the Heat as a probable suitor and indicated that the two-time All-Star intends to reach free agency in 2021 rather than signing an early extension with the Pacers.

Nuggets Notes: Malone, Free Agents, Morris, Murray

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The Nuggets hold Bird rights or Early Bird rights on all four players and can go over the salary cap to keep them.

2020 NBA Offseason Preview: Brooklyn Nets

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Note: Crawford won’t have any form of Bird rights because he was signed as a substitute player. … The preferential treatment that Kawhi Leonard and Paul George received was reportedly a source of frustration for some of the Clippers' incumbent players, and the club's inability to get on the same page played a part in its early playoff exit.

2020 NBA Offseason Preview: Portland Trail Blazers

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Note: Adams won’t have any form of Bird rights because he was signed as a substitute player. … Portland's decision on Anthony may hinge on part on what the team does with Ariza, another veteran forward who is a more effective defender than Carmelo, albeit not nearly as dangerous a scorer.

2020 NBA Offseason Preview: New Orleans Pelicans

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Note: Thornwell won't have any form of Bird rights because he was signed as a substitute player. … However, Brandon Ingram's cap hold will be worth nearly $22MM and his first-year salary on a new deal figures to exceed that, eliminating any cap space New Orleans might have otherwise created.

2020 NBA Offseason Preview: Sacramento Kings

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8 for Marquese Chriss while the Kings acquired Bogdan Bogdanovic's draft rights. … Hield's new contract extension - which starts at nearly $25MM before declining in later seasons - will go into effect in 2020/21.

2020 NBA Offseason Preview: Washington Wizards

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Note: Grant won't have any form of Bird rights because he was signed as a substitute player. … Shabazz Napier (Early Bird)

Hoops Rumors Glossary: Waivers

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A player who has Early Bird or full Bird rights retains Early Bird rights if he's claimed off waivers.

Heat Viewed As Threat For Oladipo In 2021?

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The Pacers, who will hold Oladipo's Bird rights, will be in position to offer him more money and more years than any rival suitor, so if he feels good about the club's chances to make deep postseason runs, Indiana should be in the driver's seat to re-sign him. … On top of that, Michael points out that Oladipo was always expected to test the free agent market in 2021 rather than signing an early extension with Indiana, since that will give him the opportunity to maximize his earnings.

Northwest Notes: Blazers, Roberson, Thunder, Dozier

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PJ Dozier's new deal with the Nuggets is a three-year pact that was completed the team's using mid-level exception, as Jeff Siegel of Early Bird Rights notes (via Twitter). … Chesapeake Energy Corporation, the company that owns the naming rights for the Thunder's arena, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, as Royce Young of ESPN writes.

Recap Of Moves Made During NBA’s Transaction Window

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According to Jeff Siegel of Early Bird Rights (Twitter link), that partial guarantee is worth about $1.2MM and the deal includes a non-guaranteed salary for '21/22. … The NBA went nearly three-and-a-half months without a single roster move being completed, as league business was put on hold during its coronavirus-related hiatus.

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