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Raptors sign G Shead to three-year, $24M extension (opens the original)
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Toronto Raptors guard Jamal Shead has agreed to a three-year, $24 million contract extension with the franchise, his agent, KJ Smith, told ESPN on Thursday. The new deal keeps Shead, 24, under contract through the 2029-30 season. He lands an extension just two seasons after the Houston product was selected with the 45th overall pick in the 2024 NBA draft. The 6-foot-1 guard had 354 assists (5.4 per game) in 2025-26 -- a league-best off the bench and the most in franchise history for a reserve pl
Sources: NBA reviewing bids from three finalists for Vegas team (opens the original)
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The NBA is expected to select the winning bid for ownership of the Las Vegas expansion team in the very near future, with a price of at least $12 billion to $13 billion for the franchise and a new arena, from among three finalist groups -- Nancy Walton Laurie and Bill Laurie; Steve Apostolopoulos and Marc Lasry; and Bill Foley and Jerry Colangelo -- sources told ESPN. The league, which will hold a formal approval process by the end of December on two expansion teams, is closing on Las Vegas befo
Report: Pistons, Thompson agree to five-year, $155M extension (opens the original)
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Detroit Pistons All-Defensive forward Ausar Thompson has agreed to a five-year, $155 million rookie-scale contract extension with the franchise, sources told ESPN. Thompson lands the fully guaranteed extension after making first-team All-Defense and finishing third in Defensive Player of the Year voting last season. The 23-year-old averaged 9.9 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 0.9 blocks in 2025-26 while leading the NBA in steals per game (2.0). Overall, Thompson had the third-most steals a
Report: Pelicans trade Hawkins to Grizzlies in four-player deal (opens the original)
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The New Orleans Pelicans have traded Jordan Hawkins, Micah Peavy, a future second-round draft pick and a future second-round pick swap to the Memphis Grizzlies for AJ Johnson and Taj Gibson. The trade, which was announced Tuesday, clears roster space for the Pelicans, frees up salary flexibility to sign Bennedict Mathurin to a two-year, $16 million deal, and allows New Orleans to have a look at a young player in the 21-year-old Johnson, who was the No. 21 pick in the 2024 draft. Hawkins, a lotte
Report: Rockets, Thompson reach five-year, $208M deal (opens the original)
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Houston Rockets guard Amen Thompson has agreed to a five-year, $208 million rookie-scale contract extension with the franchise, sources told ESPN. The new deal includes a 10% trade kicker, sources said, and constitutes the same percentage of the Rockets’ salary cap as when the team signed Alperen Sengun to a five-year, $185 million rookie extension in 2024. Thompson is now under contract through 2032. Thompson, 23, has been an ascending multi-position player for Houston ever since becoming its N
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