By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
With the NBA free agency being limited just to 10 days, a lot of things are happening and here you can track all the reported major moves made in Day 3 that don’t include direct European interest.
Transfers that include European players, or players that are familiar faces in Europe can be found here.
- Donovan Mitchell has agreed to a five-year, $195 million designated rookie max extension.
- Jayson Tatum has agreed to a five-year contract extension worth up to $195 million with the Boston Celtics. Tatum, the No. 3 overall pick in 2017, averaged a career-high 23.4 points per game last season to help the Celtics reach the Eastern Conference finals for the third time in the past four seasons.
- Willie Cauley-Stein has agreed to a two-year, $8.2 million deal to return to the Dallas Mavericks. The former No. 6 overall pick was acquired by the Mavericks in a trade with the Golden State Warriors in January.
- Torrey Craig has reached agreement on a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks. The Denver Nuggets pulled a qualifying offer on the forward on Saturday. Craig spent three seasons in Denver and averaged 5.4 points and 3.3 rebounds per game last season.
- Austin Rivers has agreed on a three-year, $10 million deal with the Knicks. Rivers spent the last two playoff seasons with the Houston Rockets, and now he joins one of his father’s former teams; Doc Rivers played for the Knicks from 1992 to 1994.
- The New York Knicks traded Ed Davis to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Omari Spellman, Jacob Evans, and a future second-round pick. Davis was traded to New York from the Utah Jazz earlier this week, while 2018 first-round picks Spellman and Evans were traded to Minnesota from Golden State in the Andrew Wiggins-D’Angelo Russell transaction in February 2020.
- Kent Bazemore has agreed to a one-year deal with the Golden State Warriors. Bazemore began his career with the Warriors after going undrafted in 2012, before being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2014.
- Damian Jones has agreed to a two-year deal with the Phoenix Suns. Jones spent the first three seasons of his career with the Golden State Warriors, winning championships in 2017 and 2018, before being traded to the Atlanta Hawks last summer.
- Bryn Forbes has agreed to a two-year deal to join the Milwaukee Bucks. Forbes departs San Antonio, where he played his first four seasons, averaging 8.9 points per game and shooting 40% from 3-point range for his Spurs career.
- Sterling Brown has agreed to a one-year deal with the Houston Rockets. Brown, 25, will sign for the veterans minimum to provide wing depth for the Rockets. He averaged 5.2 points and 3.1 rebounds in three seasons for the Bucks.
- Harry Giles has agreed to a one-year deal with the Portland Trail Blazers.
- Jontay Porter has agreed to a three-year, $6M deal to stay with the Memphis Grizzlies. Porter was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Grizzlies on March 8, days before the league shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, and has yet to make his NBA debut.
- The Detroit Pistons are trading center Tony Bradley to the Philadelphia 76ers for guard Zhaire Smith. Bradley was acquired by the Pistons in a trade with the Utah Jazz last week.
- The Memphis Grizzlies announced that they have re-signed De’Anthony Melton to a four-year, $35 million deal. Melton will continue to serve as a connector on offense who is active defensively and on rebounds.
- The Oklahoma City Thunder traded Jalen Lecque to the Indiana Pacers for T.J. Leaf and a future second-round pick. Lecque spent last season with the Phoenix Suns and was part of the Chris Paul trade. Leaf played in 139 games with Indiana after being selected in the first round of the 2017 draft.
- The Toronto Raptors and DeAndre’ Bembry agreed to a two-year, $4 million deal. Bembry, a 2016 first-round pick by the Atlanta Hawks, averaged 3.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals in a reserve role last season with Atlanta.