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The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed guard Kennedy Chandler to a 10-day contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. Chandler (6-0, 170, Tennessee) has appeared in 42 games (41 starts) for the Delaware Blue Coats of the NBA G League during the 2025-26 season, averaging 17.0 points, 9.0 assists, 2.7 rebounds, and 1.9 steals in 34.7 minutes per game.
"It's not an accident that teams like the Lakers, Clippers, Heat and Warriors all have lined up to have cap space in 2027 when Giannis can be a free agent," one NBA executive told ESPN. "A player like Giannis can tilt the balance of power in the league for years to come. "What nobody knows yet is whether they'll really trade him before he gets to free agency -- and how they're making that decision."
Myles Turner: “So, in my head, I'm thinking, all right, well, you know what? It's my turn. You know what I mean? Like, you know, I'm going to the prime of my career. These are the most, you know, the prime money-making parts of my career, what not. I got to take full advantage where I'm at. So, we get to the finals. Yeah. And I'm thinking, we just superseded what we did the year before and I'm the only one really in the contract year. And, you know, with with Indiana, they're one of the few organizations that have never gone into the luxury tax. And what's being told to me is like pretty much all year is that you know you know we're we're going to lux make sure we take care of you yada yada and then again we lose in the finals whatnot. Hi goes down and then we get to free agency which is like a couple days later basically and they're singing a different tune. So they present their offer to me and you know I know how business works and I thought it was a lowball offer but I thought you know you work up from there right and then I get presented an offer with Milwaukee that's $40 million more. And like of course anybody this is a business at the end of the day, bro. I can't I love Indiana. I love where I was at. We got to the finals, but it's like I got to make a decision that's best for me and my family.
Myles Turner: So, I think in their heads what they was thinking cuz obviously you know the little the thing that happened with Damian Lillard had they waved and stretched out. It created a lot more cap space. And if you look at the cap space for that summertime, I think in their heads they was thinking there was nowhere else for me to go. Which I'm a businessman. I'm like, ‘Okay, cool. I got this asset. There's nowhere else for him to go. I'm off from a low bomb and see what happens.’ So they made that final offer on the table and whatnot and they weren't willing to go up very high, you know, contrary to what's said out there, they wasn't willing to go up and once the news broke, it was like a oh [ __ ] he betrayed us, you know what I mean?”
Myles Turner: “I couldn’t tell Tyrese, Pascal, Obi, TJ, or any of those guys what was really going on at the time because, one, it’s basically a breach when you’re in active negotiations. And two, I couldn’t show my hand. If I told them what was up, then all of a sudden it gets back to the front office like, ‘Oh, Myles, you’ve got this going on,’ and that could mess up my whole free-agency process. And mind you, this was my first time ever being a free agent—an unrestricted free agent. So I had to cherish that opportunity to choose, and I was going to take full advantage of it.”
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Tony East: Missed this from this morning, but the Noblesville Boom announced this morning that forward Cody Martin, who played for the Pacers this season, is out for the year with a right shoulder injury. Additionally, the team has reacquired forward/center Jordan Bell.
While guard Terry Rozier remains on the Miami Heat’s roster, his release is expected in the coming weeks. Rozier likely won’t be on the Heat’s postseason roster, according to a league source.
With Rozier away from the team and not expected back this season in the wake of his Oct. 23 arrest stemming from a federal investigation into illegal gambling, the Heat is expected to waive Rozier before the end of the regular season to open a roster spot to add a player for depth in the postseason.
One of the reasons the Heat hasn’t yet released Rozier — even though he can no longer be used in a trade since the Feb. 5 NBA trade deadline already passed — is because it doesn’t feel the immediate need to add a replacement player because of its current depth. Even with some injury issues along the way, Heat players who were once in the rotation earlier this season like Nikola Jovic, Simone Fontecchio, Dru Smith and Myron Gardner have recently had their playing time cut with the roster moving closer to full health.
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Multiple league sources told The Post that the idea remains the same: The Nets intend to flip the switch and try to compete as soon as next season. Just how aggressive their rebuild is, and exactly what it looks like, is going to be determined by four or five touch points over the next 18 months. How the Nets rookies develop, what kind of lottery luck they get, what happens in the upcoming playoffs, if a star becomes available and free agency will all play roles in shaping how Brooklyn’s rebuild goes. “Yes, it’s all of the above,” a source told The Post. “There’s going to be like five touch points where you go OK, where’s the team.”
Luke Kornet: “Yeah, obviously, free agency is a pretty strange endeavor. Honestly, when evaluating where to go, San Antonio was an option that felt really good, and it obviously has a great track record that speaks for itself. But, to be honest, it was frankly bittersweet. It kind of came and went in waves because, although I was excited for the next challenge and being in this new place, at the same time there’s just the reality of moving. We had been in Boston for so many years and had so many great relationships. We also have three small children, so you build quite a community, and now you’re heading to a place where, really, we didn’t know anybody. So, there was definitely a part of it where I felt very good about it in terms of taking a step forward in life, career, responsibility, and those types of things. It felt like the doors just kind of opened in the right way. But frankly, there wasn’t a lot of celebration. I know that, for a lot of people, and definitely in a certain way, it meant a lot. But at the same time, there’s also the reality of a lot of difficult things, a lot of saying goodbye, and a lot of saying goodbye to a community that you had been in for so long and had accomplished a lot with together.”
The feeling around LeBron James and the league is he will play at least one more season, per @ShamsCharania “LeBron hasn’t made a decision on if he’s going to continue to play. The feeling around LeBron and the league is he’ll go at least one more season. How the Lakers finish the season will play a big factor in LeBrons future”
Do you think this is LeBron's last year, man? Dwyane Wade: “I think it depends on what happens. I think it depends on what happens this year.” Host: “What's the max you think he could keep?” Dwyane Wade: “I think I think two.” “I think he plays I think he could play two more.”