Spencer Dinwiddie is eligible for an extension later this offseason and there is support within the Brooklyn Nets organization to add years to his current contract, according to Ian Begley of SNY-TV.
Dinwiddie is entering his walk year with a cap hit of $20,357,143. After being reacquired from the Dallas Mavericks in February, Dinwiddie went on to start 26 regular-season games while averaging 16.5 points and 9.1 assists in 35.3 minutes.
We have more from the Eastern Conference:
- The Orlando Magic have pushed back their decision regarding Bol Bol‘s contract, Jamie Seh of WKMG-TV tweets. Bol has a non-guaranteed $2.2M salary for next season and the original deadline to guarantee his deal was Friday. If the Magic don’t guarantee his contract, Bol will end up on waivers.
- By trading for Joe Harris and his expiring contract, rather than pursuing a high-level free agent, the Detroit Pistons are protecting their cap space for next summer while avoiding a potentially bad contract, according to James Edwards III of The Athletic. Handing a huge offer sheet to restricted free agent Cameron Johnson, as had been anticipated, would have meant overpaying for a role player. They could easily have $60M in cap space to play with next summer in a stronger free-agent market. Detroit won’t give up a player to the Nets in the trade for Harris, who will provide shooting and wing depth.
- Agent Mark Bartelstein said Harris has spoken with Pistons GM Troy Weaver, coach Monty Williams and executive Arn Tellem, Mark Medina tweets. According to Bartelstein, the Pistons have wanted Harris “for a couple of years” and “he’ll have a great role there.”
- The Miami Heat only have veteran minimum contracts to offer to free agents, Barry Jackson of Miami Herald tweets. The cap-strapped Heat don’t have a trade lined up which would clear enough cap space to use exceptions within league cap rules.
- While the Philadelphia 76ers aren’t expected to pursue a rookie-scale extension with Tyrese Maxey, they also have not yet made him available in trade discussions, Kyle Neubeck of Philly Voice tweets.
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