Brooklyn completes Moritz Wagner signing
The Brooklyn Nets on Friday officially signed free-agent center Moritz Wagner to the two-year, $19 million agreement they reached 30 days earlier. Wagner delayed signing to give the front office time to explore ways to use roughly $14 million in remaining salary-cap room, according to The Third Apron’s Yossi Gozlan.
With no suitable trade or free-agent target emerging, Brooklyn used cap space to finalize the deal. The move leaves the Nets with about $4.5 million in room plus a $9.4 million room exception and a full 15-man standard roster.
Gozlan notes that the leftover $4.5 million could be applied to a renegotiation of Michael Porter Jr.’s 2026-27 salary as part of an extension. Under NBA rules, only teams operating below the cap can renegotiate a player’s current-year pay, and any increase must come this season. Porter is due $40.8 million; a $4.5 million bump would be modest but could open talks on a longer deal.
Kawhi Leonard investigation continues
In a column for Sportsnet.ca, Michael Grange outlines why the NBA’s inquiry into the Los Angeles Clippers and forward Kawhi Leonard remains unresolved. Grange argues that each party involved is weighing potential gains from a conclusion against possible losses if the process drags on. He projects Leonard will be on the Toronto Raptors’ roster when training camps begin in late September.
Hart and Green spar online
A resurfaced 2024 podcast clip criticizing Knicks guard Jalen Brunson sparked a social-media exchange between New York’s Josh Hart and Golden State’s Draymond Green. After Green’s comments about Brunson’s team-friendly extension were reposted, Hart tweeted, “We got to normalize grown men not counting other people’s pockets.” Green responded on Threads, questioning Hart’s timing and labeling him a “front-runner.”
Reflecting on Brown-Tatum partnership
With Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum set to start the 2026-27 season on different teams for the first time since Tatum entered the league in 2017, Jay King of The Athletic looks back on the duo’s 10-year run with the Boston Celtics and what their split means for the franchise’s future.
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