Contract Details: Diawara, Sanders, Shamet, Alvarado, Oubre, More

The Knicks and Clippers used the Non-Bird exception to lock up a pair of restricted free agents who had strong rookie seasons in 2025/26.

Knicks forward Mohamed Diawara and Clippers guard Kobe Sanders received matching $2,622,139 starting salaries on their new four-year contracts with their respective clubs, Hoops Rumors has learned. That figure represents 120% of their minimum salary, which is the maximum allowed using Non-Bird rights.

Besides earning identical first-year salaries, Diawara and Sanders will have essentially the same contract for the next four seasons. Both players got two fully guaranteed seasons, a non-guaranteed third year, and a fourth-year team option, with a total value of $11,279,212 on each deal.

Here are a few more details on recently signed contracts from around the NBA:

• The exact value of Landry Shamet‘s new four-year deal with the Knicks is $23,978,467, with a starting salary of $5,490,967. After two fully guaranteed seasons, the partial guarantee on year three (2028/29) is worth $1,581,241, with a partial guarantee of $1,690,292 on Shamet’s fourth-year player option for 2029/30.
• Meanwhile, Jose Alvarado‘s new three-year contract with the Knicks has an overall value of $14,384,484, including a 2026/27 cap hit of $4,439,656. Alvarado’s third-year salary of $5.15MM is partially guaranteed for $2,765,516.
• The Pacers‘ used $8.05MM of their non-taxpayer mid-level exception to sign Kelly Oubre Jr. to a two-year, $16.5MM contract. Indiana still has nearly $7MM left on its mid-level exception, though the team now faces a first-apron hard cap for the rest of the league year.
• As expected, the Wizards are maxing out the money left on their Kelly Olynyk trade exception to give Khris Middleton a guaranteed 2026/27 salary of $5,591,112 via sign-and-trade. Middleton, whose three-year contract is worth a total of $17,612,034, has a partial guarantee on year two worth $908,878.
• John Collins‘ new three-year, $51MM contract with the Pistons has a flat structure, with annual cap hits of $17MM. Only the first season is fully guaranteed for now, but Collins can lock in the subsequent salaries if he remains under contract through June 28 of each year.