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With all due respect to the unsigned free agents and trade candidates yet to be moved, the dust has mostly settled on the 2025 NBA offseason.
$109 Million Bucks Player Takes Jab at Pacers Amid NBA Free Agency originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Jonathan Kuminga has been linked to the Kings in a potential three-team sign-and-trade which would also involve the Warriors and Pistons. Dennis Schröder (who is heading to the Kings) and Malik Monk (who was on the Kings when free agency started) could also reportedly be involved.
NBA free agency is still alive and well as we wait to see where some future Hall of Famers and talented young players coming off their rookie deals will end up.
The San Antonio Spurs are acquiring Kelly Olynyk from the Washington Wizards for Malaki Branham, Blake Wesley and a 2026 second-round pick, a team source confirmed to The Athletic.
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Here we will look at and discuss the biggest mistake that the Houston Rockets may have made during the 2025 NBA free agency.
NBA free agency in the summer of 2025 felt like it was over as soon as it started. The first 48 hours of free agency brought a rash of signings and a few big trades, but things quieted down quickly with almost zero available cap space around the league.
Even if Gilgeous-Alexander won't reach that milestone, the NBA's richest players grow even richer. When former MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan became the first professional athlete to sign a contract that would pay him a million dollars per year in 1979, it was the day's top sports story in The New York Times.
This free agency period has several of those kinds of signings. Here are four of the best fits from NBA free agency 2025. The Rockets landing Kevin Durant via trade was the headline acquisition of NBA free agency, but stealing Finney-Smith away from the Los Angeles Lakers may prove nearly as important.
The first wave of NBA free agency has come and gone, but there are still some good free agents left on the open market.
As a result of Kuminga's free agency saga, one NBA writer has suggested that the Warriors missed out on a golden opportunity to sign an impactful free agent before he was eventually taken off the market by the New York Knicks on a team-friendly contract.