2024 NBA Free Agency

[u/Civrock]

Hornets fans and visitors,

The purpose of this mega thread is for centralized chat and discussion of anything related to the 2024 NBA Free Agency, including fan-proposed trades, rather than numerous self posts or trade machine images/links which really don't need their own threads.

Posts/articles from media or other reputable sources regarding free agency rumors and trades can still be posted as their own threads, this is primarily for Free Agency commentary and trade ideas by fans. If you have a high quality text submission, go for it.

Thank you for your cooperation. Bonk on. 🐝

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🏀 2024 NBA Free Agency 🏀

➡️ June 29

• Last day for a team or player option to be exercised
• Last day for a player to receive a Qualifying Offer

➡️ June 30

• Free agent negotiations can begin with players not on your own team (6 PM ET)

➡️ July 1

• Free agency moratorium (12:01 AM ET)
• First-round selections can sign contracts
• Minimum contracts (2 years or less) can sign
• Restricted free agents can sign an offer sheet
• Third-year and fourth-year rookie options can be exercised
• Two-way contracts can be signed and converted

➡️ July 6

• Free agency begins (12:00 PM ET)
• Teams can officially sign free agents
• Trades can become official
• Rookie-scale and veteran contracts can be extended
• Clock begins on offer sheets signed during the moratorium

➡️ July 13

• Last day to withdraw a Qualifying Offer

[u/a_moniker]

If we cut Bertans, then we should open up around $13 Million in cap space now that we’ve released Seth and Thor. That’s also assuming we re-signed Miles’s.

So, if we wanted, we could offer one free agent a little more than the MLE, and still sign another free agent to around an $8 Million contract using the Room Exception. I’m not certain, but we might be able to use the Room Exception in the Reggie Jackson trade, which would let us offer a free agent around $18 Million per year. The new CBA is a little tricky to understand though.

Personally, I’d like us to target Goga Bitazde with the cap space. We desperately need a 3rd Center, and I think Goga is an upgrade on Richards. We do need more wing depth as well though.

[u/YizWasHere → u/a_moniker]

Wing depth should be higher priority than center imo. I think we have to use that cap on a wing and then if there are centers still available then we can use the room exception on them. Using $13M on another center just seems wasteful to me.

[u/a_moniker → u/YizWasHere]

I definitely agree that wing depth is a huge need as well. I just feel like there are more gettable Centers than Forwards.

All the good teams are gonna gobble up all the wings, and we’d be overpaying for whatever is left.

[u/YizWasHere → u/a_moniker]

Yeah I get where you're coming from, every year we've entered free agency with some cap space it feels like all the affordable wings get gobbled up within the first 15 minutes, before Kupchak even picked up the phone. I'm betting on the new FO handling free agency much better but we're not exactly a premier landing spot regardless.

From the standpoint of "winning this year doesn't really matter," walking away with another center on a multi-year contract isn't a bad outcome.