The NBA free agency period officially opened up at 6:00 eastern time Sunday afternoon. The Charlotte Hornets had a quiet evening, but there were still plenty of things going on. While the big club didn’t register any transactions, there were reports of players joining the summer league squad that opens up play this Saturday. Here is the full squad as we know it so far. Players with (new) next to their name have been added since the last update linked above.
Seth Curry and JT Thor were handed their walking papers on the eve of free agency, and while nothing was reported, Marques Bolden appears on the Warriors’ summer league roster, so clearly the team has no interest in keeping him around.
The Hornets have been linked to a couple of players in the rumor mill.
- The Hornets, along with about a third of the league, have expressed interest inside Heat forward Haywood Highsmith. Highsmith is one of those Heat Culture guys they picked up off the scrap heap and made a useful player. He’s a very good perimeter defender and knocked down nearly 40% of his threes last season.
- The Hornets have been linked to guard Collin Gillespie as a potential target for a two-way deal
- In that same report with the news about Gillespie, Jack Fischer of Yahoo Sports reports that the Nuggets are interested in Hornets guard and Nikola Jokic’s fellow countryman Vasilije Micic.
Some quick hits from around the league:
- The 76ers enter the offseason with one (1) players on a guaranteed contract for next season. They’ve agreed to a contract with Andre Drummond and seem destined to add Paul George as well.
- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is leaving the Nuggets to join the Magic
- Chris Paul is signing a one year deal with the Spurs
- Klay Thompson is out of Golden State; we’ll see where he lands
- Jonas Valanciunas is signing with the Wizards
- Former Hornets great Mason Plumlee is signing with the Suns
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