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January 30 - Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James play Nets at Barclays Center. They would add the two-time Finals MVP and one-time league MVP to another former MVP Jonquel Jones who they acquired in a trade on Monday. Big day for Liberty who have been in pursuit of Breanna Stewart.

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January 21 - WNBA teams can start negotiating with free agents. Two-ways make $502,000 for the season, half the minimum salary for rookies. Since Duke is on a roll with Long Island and Smith was just signed, don’t expect any change there. January 20 - NBA Two-Way contracts are guaranteed for the remainder of the season. Tsai is currently projected to pay roughly $100 million in luxury taxes this year. This is clearly the ultimate win-now team in the NBA.” Woj said on NBA Countdown. “They have an owner in Joe Tsai who’s shown a willingness to take on salary to run up their luxury tax bill. It’s one more indication that Joe and Clara Wu Tsai remain serious about both the Liberty and Nets.Īs Woj noted on Friday, the Tsais are willing to pay even more luxury taxes. They can officially start talking with her and other free agents this weekend. The Libs would like to add free agent All-Everything Breanna Stewart to the mix. She specifically requested a move to New York. Meanwhile, these are heady days for the New York Liberty who traded for Jonquel Jones, the 2021 MVP, on Monday. The amount drops every day by $37,326 but Brooklyn will still have around $4.6 million available on March 1.

There are other decision dates coming up as well, March 1 is the buyout deadline where the Nets have a bit of an advantage in that - if they want - they can still utilize the Taxpayers MLE in the March 1 buyout talks. Well, every team except those who practice spelling “Wembanyama” for their Draft Night card. Why? Because with the play-in format, virtually every team thinks they have a chance at the post-season. Moreover, Bobby Marks, Woj’s ESPN colleague, says trade talks so far have been less active than in the past. That coincidence will permit the Nets to re-evaluate, per Woj and a league source.īrooklyn’s front office wants to be systematic and purposeful in seeing what the Nets can do as a team and as individuals during KD’s absence, then depending on what they decide make the necessary moves at the deadline. How long will he be out? According to Adrian Wojnarowski, the Nets expect him to be on the bench for a month, starting with the diagnosis of his sprained MCL on January 9. Kevin Durant is out and the Nets are 0-2 without him.