Free agency rumors roundup: Orlando only offering two years to Thompson; Bucks shake up?

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The NBA draft comes next week, free agency opens a few days after that, and that has the rumors flying fast and furious around league circles. Here is a roundup of some of the bigger names and more interesting rumors out there.

• Orlando only offering Klay Thompson two years? The reported sticking point between Golden State and Klay Thompson is years — Golden State is only offering two, and Thompson wants at least three. The thought was Thompson had leverage because other teams, such as Orlando, were out there and would give him that third year, but Jake Fischer at Yahoo says not so fast, my friends.

Orlando, sources said, indeed holds intentions of pursuing a veteran guard/wing who can space the floor around Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner, without commanding too much on-ball oxygen. Orlando appears to have an appetite to only offer a short-term deal, similar to the two-year, above-market contract the Magic awarded Joe Ingles a season ago.

All things being equal, it’s hard to see Thompson leaving Golden State, but is another team out there with cap space — Detroit, San Antonio — going to step up with a three-year offer? (Oklahoma City has cap space, too, but after trading for Alex Caruso it needs to keep cap space to re-sign him in six months, which rules out the size and length of offer Thompson wants.)

• Mavericks’ off-season priority is re-signing Derrick Jones Jr. Dallas only brought this core together at the trade deadline, and it took them to the NBA Finals, so, of course, the plan is to run it back next season. That starts with re-signing wing Derrick Jones Jr., GM Nico Harrison said on Friday.

Nico Harrison says re-signing Derrick Jones Jr. is priority “1A and 1B” for Mavs this off-season. “We’ll do everything we can to get that done.”

— Brad Townsend (@townbrad) June 21, 2024

• Doc Rivers wants to “shake up” Bucks roster with a change or two. Could defensive anchor Brook Lopez be on his way out in Milwaukee? Another core player? There’s growing buzz around the league that Rivers has the Bucks looking to make…

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Publish date : 2024-06-21 20:56:05

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