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]

Yeah, I don’t think we have enough competition that we should need to offer much more than $25 Million per year. Most teams have already burned through their cap space.

[u/Amazing_Owl3026 → u/a_moniker]

The Pistons and Jazz still can offer him 29M but both of them have their 4 (even if Utah traded Lauri they still have Collins and Hendricks).

I think Miles is coming back

[u/a_moniker → u/Amazing_Owl3026]

Yeah, it seems like Detroit is our only competition, and Miles would have signed with one of us by now if they were offering >= $30M

[u/buzzcitybonehead → u/a_moniker]

I suspect the longer this goes on, the better. This time last year we were speculating about like $18 mil/year for PJ and it ended up being $14 mil after everyone else spent their money.

If someone like Atlanta or Houston wants that talent boost, though, I don’t think an S&T is out of the question.

[u/TheMuleB → u/buzzcitybonehead]

We do need to be careful about not alienating our players though, apparently PJ felt disrespected by our offer and it was a big reason for why he played so poorly this last season. There's a reason teams don't usually lowball their players like that, this isn't 2k and you have to keep a good relationship with your players or it can get ugly very quickly. Players use their salaries as a measure of their rank in the league and in the locker room, and it can be dangerous to upset that.

With that being said, this is a very particular and rare situation due to the off court issues that Miles had, so I'm hopeful that he'll understand why the front office is reluctant to offer him a huge contract. All I'm saying is we need to be careful and it's not as simple as matching the highest offer another team is willing to make.

[u/Alkazard → u/buzzcitybonehead]

Keep in mind this is the notoriously cancer Klutch/Rich Paul we're talking about. Whilst I have high hopes the longer this goes the better for us, he's also the king of a chip on his shoulder and shunning anything he feels is disrespect.

Wouldn't be surprised if less than 25m a year and he'll request a sign and trade even if it's less money - considering we didn't reach their expectations last year either.

Or more likely a short term 1 year or 1+1 contract to try again and make us suffer for a 3rd off season in a row

[u/a_moniker → u/Alkazard]

Good. I hope he demands a sign-and-trade.

I just don’t think that many teams want to give him a big contract, tbh. This is the second off-season in a row where he apparently can’t find a good competing offer. Trying a 3rd time would just be idiotic.