NBA free agency start date, rumours, trades and live updates: Kyrie re-signs to Nets, John Wall to Clippers

The Boston Celtics are in a great position to keep fighting, but that won’t be enough. Now that they are within championship range, there is still a litany of questions about the immediate future for the front office to address.

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The clock is on to see when John Wall will be redeemed. It takes 48 hours to clear the waivers, and then Wall would be immediately available as he would be on a terminated contract, not one that expires before the league’s new year.

RJ Barrett becomes eligible for an extension on July 1. He and the Knicks have until the day before the start of the 2022-23 season to reach an agreement. If they don’t, he’ll hit the restricted free agent next summer.

Until then, the big question remains: Should the Knicks give Barrett a max contract, worth a projected $185 million over five years? The deal would go into effect for the 2023-24 season with a starting salary of $32 million.

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John Wall and the Houston Rockets have agreed to a buyout, which will make him an unrestricted free agent, sources have confirmed to The Athletic. Wall will return $6.5 million of his $47.3 million salary for 2022-23 upon his buyout with the Rockets.

Wall held firm all last season as the Rockets focused on developing young players. Wall, a five-time All-Star, has played just 40 games since the 2018-19 season. He missed the entire 2019-20 season recovering from a ruptured Achilles and an infection. He appeared in 40 games with the Rockets in 2021.

Wall was the first pick in the 2010 NBA draft and has career averages of 19.1 points, 9.1 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 1.7 steals.

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Washington Wizards executive Tommy Sheppard will enter NBA free agency with two overriding priorities.

The main target, as the whole league knows, involves Bradley Beal. Monumental Sports & Entertainment principal owner Ted Leonsis and Sheppard want to re-sign Beal to a long-term contract.

The second goal revolves around what Sheppard, in a tongue-in-cheek moment immediately after the draft, called “a little place wide open.” This wide open place happens to be a critical point. Washington needs a top-notch playmaker in the most desperate way.

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The central market is usually relatively quiet, but not this year. While we once again have the typical bunch of minimum caliber big players looking to hang on for another year (seriously, scroll down: it’s an amazing list), this time around the agent The league’s most accessible restricted free play this position, along with several other players interesting enough to command at least the mid-level exception.

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A group of key Warriors front office decision makers, including Bob Myers, Kirk Lacob, Mike Dunleavy and Larry Harris, will move to Los Angeles later this week. This is where much of the NBA’s free agency activity is housed.

The Warriors are not expected to dive into high profile waters. Their expensive core is cemented. But, if you lay out the various personnel decisions that could shape the 2023 title race, the Warriors’ week is among the most important. They’re trying to pull together the second layer of a championship core. Kevon Looney, Gary Payton II, Otto Porter Jr. and Nemanja Bjelica — sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth in playoff minutes for the Warriors — are all unrestricted free agents.

Based on what he’s said publicly, Brad Stevens would like to add more offensive punch without altering his team’s big defensive identity. It’s hard to find this type of players on a tight budget. Please keep that in mind as you read through this list of possible Boston mid-tier exceptional targets, which is full of veterans surrounded by question marks. This great free agent board, based on my own opinions, includes players who could reasonably be available to the Celtics at a price they can afford. If you think I’m crazy for not putting someone on this list, I’ve probably ruled that player out due to the high likelihood of them accepting more money elsewhere (or, in the case of Patty Mills , because it does not offer what the Celtics want on one side of the field).

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Let the New York Knicks create maximum drama without making a choice.

In one night, they managed three transactions. Six first and four second went through them. They’ve dealt with a former All-NBA player, and they’ve come one step closer to creating significant cap space this summer.

The NBA Draft is over. Let’s break it all down.

Brooklyn Nets All-Star guard Kyrie Irving has been cleared by the organization to request a signing and trade, sources have confirmed to The Athletic Monday. Irving has a Wednesday deadline to collect his $36.9 million player option for next season.

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Kyrie Irving and the Nets appear to be deadlocked in contract talks as the June 29 player option deadline approaches. During the draft, Rich Kleiman, Kevin Durant’s agent and longtime business partner, even made an appearance before NBA commissioner Adam Silver began introducing the league’s next generation.

With so much at stake entering a crucial week of options decisions and free will, Alex Schiffer, Athleticism The Nets writer enlisted national writers Sam Amick and Joe Vardon to sift through what’s leveraged and what’s legit in the constant talk surrounding the organization.

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Unrestricted free-shooting guard Malik Monk is willing to accept less money to return to Los Angeles Lakers, he says Athleticism in an exclusive interview.

“They might not be able to pay me as much as I want,” Monk said. “But I could be here and be way more comfortable as a Laker than going to any other team and they pay me $5 million more. So it’s just me trying to figure out which team would really want me.

The most the Lakers can offer Monk is their Mid-Tier Taxpayer Exception, which is worth about $6.3 million. That number could be a discount for Monk, as he could command a multi-year deal worth $10 million to $12 million a year on the open market, according to multiple league sources.

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