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NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Oklahoma City Thunder

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Re-signed using Early Bird rights after team option was declined. … Re-signed using Bird rights after team option was declined.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Miami Heat

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Re-signed using Bird rights. … Re-signed using Early Bird rights.

Hoops Rumors Glossary: Sign-And-Trade

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A sign-and-trade contract can be worth any amount up to the player's maximum salary (with 5% annual raises) for a player who has full Bird rights. … However, players with Non-Bird or Early Bird rights are subject to the restrictions of those exceptions.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Memphis Grizzlies

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Re-signed using Bird rights after team option was declined. … Acquired the draft rights to Cam Spencer (No.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Detroit Pistons

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Re-signed using Early Bird rights. … Acquired Wendell Moore and the draft rights to Bobi Klintman (No.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Los Angeles Lakers

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Re-signed using Bird rights. … Re-signed using Early Bird rights.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Los Angeles Clippers

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Re-signed using Bird rights. … Signed using Early Bird rights and acquired via sign-and-trade from Jazz.

Mid-Level, Bi-Annual Projections For 2025/26

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The mid-level exception and bi-annual exception are the two key tools that an over-the-cap team typically has at its disposal to sign free agents from other clubs -- or to re-sign one of its own free agents, if the player's Bird rights aren't available or aren't sufficient.

Hoops Rumors Glossary: Salary Cap Exceptions

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Generally, a player who changes teams via trade retains his Bird rights, but he loses them if he signs with a new team as a free agent. … Non-Bird Exception: If a player finishes a season with a team without having earned Bird or Early Bird rights, his team can re-sign him for 120% of his previous salary, 120% of the applicable minimum salary, or - if he's a restricted free agent - the amount of his qualifying offer.

Offseason Observations: Yabusele, MLEs, Draftees, Trade Vetos, Swap Rights

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These players would lose their Bird rights if they're dealt, which typically doesn't happen when a player is traded, but does in this case so that teams can't circumvent Bird rights rules. … Here are a few of the summer subplots I've been keeping an eye on, ranging from how Guerschon Yabusele's buyout with Real Madrid impacts a potential move to the NBA to the new ways in which teams are negotiating draft-pick swap rights in trades.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Golden State Warriors

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Signed using Bird rights and acquired via sign-and-trade from Sixers. … Signed using Bird rights and acquired via sign-and-trade from Timberwolves.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Brooklyn Nets

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Re-signed using Bird rights. … Signed using Non-Bird rights and acquired via sign-and-trade from Knicks.

Jazz Notes: Filipowski, Juzang, Cap Room, Samanic, Tshiebwe

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Re-signing Juzang using his Early Bird rights pushed the Jazz slightly over the 2024/25 cap ($140.6MM) -- they're now carrying $141.6MM in player salaries. … According to RealGM's transaction log, the team renounced Luka Samanic's free agent rights as part of its series of moves in recent days.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Dallas Mavericks

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Signed using Bird rights and acquired via sign-and-trade from Warriors. … Acquired the draft rights to Melvin Ajinca (No.

Details On Lauri Markkanen’s New Contract

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The team no longer holds any form of Bird rights on either player. … The Jazz renounced their free agent rights to Talen Horton-Tucker and Kira Lewis in order to create the cap room necessary to renegotiate Markkanen's contract, per RealGM's transaction log.

NBA 2024 Offseason Check-In: Atlanta Hawks

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Signed using Non-Bird rights and acquired via sign-and-trade from Pelicans. … Re-signed using Non-Bird rights.

Players Who Can’t Be Traded Until January 15

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These players all meet a specific set of criteria: Not only did they re-sign with their previous team this offseason, but they got a raise of at least 20%, their salary is worth more than the minimum, and their team was over the cap, using Bird or Early Bird rights to sign them.

Northwest Notes: Bediako, Westbrook, Blazers’ Centers, Jordan

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Jordan's deal was originally reported to be worth $3.6MM, which would have been possible if he were re-signed using his Early Bird rights, but it's simply a veteran's minimum contract, which will pay the veteran center approximately $3.3MM. … The Grand Rapids Gold, the Nuggets' G League team, acquired the returning rights to center Charles Bediako in a deal with the Austin Spurs, according to OurSportsCentral.com.

NBA Players Who Can Veto Trades In 2024/25

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If any player who re-signed for one year approves a trade during the 2024/25 league year, he'll have Non-Bird rights at season's end instead of Early Bird or full Bird rights.

Possible Fits For The Remaining FAs From Our Top-50 List

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The Knicks need another option at the five behind Mitchell Robinson; Achiuwa, while not really a true center, looks like the clear best option on the free agent market; and New York holds his Bird rights.