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Miami’s Spoelstra on Whiteside Rant: ‘It’s Behind Us’
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters Monday that he met with Hassan Whiteside to discuss the center’s rant after Saturday’s game and that the team is “moving on.”
The Heat fined Whiteside an undisclosed amount Sunday for “comments detrimental to the team” after Miami’s 110-109 overtime loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday. Whiteside had questioned the Heat’s decision to match the Nets when they went to a small lineup, when “we’ve got one of the best centers in the league.”
Source: ESPN
Once free agency starts on Sunday, the Houston Rockets are planning to recruit Jimmy Butler to push the Philadelphia 76ers for a sign-and-trade deal that would allow the All-Star forward to join James Harden and Chris Paul, league sources tell ESPN.
The Rockets don’t have the salary-cap space to sign Butler, so they’d need the threat of the Sixers losing him for nothing to a team with the available room to motivate the Sixers into a trade. The Rockets would also potentially need to make this a multiteam deal to satisfy the rules of Base Year Compensation that would cover Butler’s outgoing salary.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
2019 Free Agency Diary
Sources: Mavericks Plan to Offer Kristaps Porzingis Five-Year, $158 Million Deal
Restricted free agent Kristaps Porzingis and the Dallas Mavericks will meet when free agency opens on June 30 and the franchise plans to offer Porzingis a full five-year, $158 million maximum contract, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
Restricted free agent Kristaps Porzingis and the Dallas Mavericks will meet when free agency opens on June 30 and the franchise plans to offer Porzingis a full five-year, $158 million maximum contract, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 25, 2019
Source: Shams Charania on Twitter
(There is at least a kernel of truth to the Lakers’ interest in a reunion, sources say, but L.A. has a lot to sort out.
Source: Zach Lowe of ESPN
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