The 2023 offseason promises plenty of chaos and drama. Keep up with every signing in our NBA Free Agency and see how we grade each deal.
Many of the biggest lingering questions of the 2023 offseason will be answered on the trade market but NBA Free Agency still holds the potential to dramatically reshape the power structure of the league. Huge names like James Harden, Khris Middleton, Kyrie Irving, Draymond Green can re-up with contenders or create new ones by swapping teams.
The action, officially, opens at 6 p.m. ET on Friday, June 30, when teams and players can begin negotiations. We'll likely get a flurry of announcements in the immediate aftermath but it could days or even weeks for all the dust to settle. And while we're waiting, we already have seen a few potential free agents take themselves off the market by signing extensions with their current teams.
As all the action unfolds, we'll be tracking every signing, offering instant analysis and grading each deal. Bookmark this page and follow along.
Pre-NBA Free Agency extensions:
Bulls decide to keep Nikola Vucevic around
Contract: Three years, $60 million
Analysis: Vucevic was better last season than in his first full season with the Bulls but this deal still has disaster written all of it. Vucevic will be 35 by the time the deal ends and presumably much less effective. In the meantime, the Bulls are all but locked into a core that wasn't good enough to make the playoffs last season. Even if they decide to pivot they'll have a very hard time trading him on this contract and in terms of the actual number it appears they may have been bidding against themselves. What are we doing here folks?
Grade: F
Naz Reid is staying with the Timberwolves
Contract: Three years, $42 million, player-option in year 3
Analysis: The Wolves kept Reid out of free agency by inking him to this three-year extension. It allows them to keep one of the best young bigs on the market at a very reasonable price but it does create a frontcourt logjam that could increase the pressure to trade Rudy Gobert or Karl-Anthony Towns.
Grade: B+
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