{"id":706784,"date":"2026-05-31T18:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706784\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:51:17","slug":"2026-nba-free-agency-predictions-for-every-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706784\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NBA Free Agency Predictions for Every Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">ESPN&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48838667\/nba-free-agency-rankings-2026-harden-lebron-reaves-bobby-marks-top-20-contracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bobby Marks<\/a> would offer Coby White three years and $54 million, which seems like a bargain rate for a starting-caliber guard in the middle of his prime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That projection reflects several market forces pushing White&#8217;s earning power downward, not the least of which being most teams&#8217; inability to offer more than the midlevel exception, which starts at $15.1 million and can run for up to four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">White, though, is hugely valuable to the Charlotte Hornets, who saw him hit the biggest shot of their season in the Play-In when  he drilled a game-saving three from the left corner against the Miami Heat. Some might argue White is a luxury on a team that already has a ton of offensive firepower in LaMelo Ball, Kon Knueppel and Brandon Miller, but White showed he was closer to a necessity after coming over at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Lastly, Charlotte should keep White&#8217;s trade candidacy in mind. Signing him for closer to $20 million per year keeps an ideally sized salary on the books. If it turns out that the Hornets need more help at forward and center, they&#8217;ll be glad they have White&#8217;s hypothetically larger contract to balance out a trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s Bobby Marks would offer Coby White three years and $54 million, which seems like a bargain rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-706784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}