{"id":767686,"date":"2026-06-29T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:38:12","slug":"ranking-the-top-57-players-available-in-2026-nba-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767686\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the Top 57 Players Available In 2026 NBA Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Houston Rockets suffered a serious setback before the season even began when starting point guard Fred VanVleet was lost for the year with a knee injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">VanVleet has a $25 million player option. The working assumption is that he&#8217;ll opt in, but if that changes, he may make the top 60 in a future revision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cam Thomas was recently let go by the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks. So too was Jaden Ivey by the Chicago Bulls and Cole Anthony by the Phoenix Suns. Ben Simmons never found a home through the 2025-26 season. Current free agents were left off the overall list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Kings will have to seriously consider releasing DeMar DeRozan, whose $25.7 million is only $10 million guaranteed. If so, he&#8217;ll join the list as an older but still high-level NBA scorer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bradley Beal, with a hip injury, is expected to opt into his final year with the LA Clippers, though don&#8217;t rule out the Miami Heat. Others with team options expected to stick include Daniss Jenkins, Ryan Nembhard, Julian Champagnie, and Dominick Barlow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Others include Kevin Huerter, Ariel Hukporti, Quinten Post, Brandon Williams, Ochai Agbaji, Jeremy Sochan, Ziaire Williams, Kevon Looney, Mike Conley, Zach Collins, AJ Lawson, Bones Hyland, Aaron Holiday, and Tyus Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Email Eric Pincus at eric.pincus@gmail.com and follow him on X\/Twitter <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/EricPincus\">@EricPincus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets suffered a serious setback before the season even began when starting point guard Fred VanVleet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-767686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767686","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=767686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}