{"id":50392,"date":"2025-07-31T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50392\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:09:14","slug":"hoops-rumors-live-chat-rfa-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50392\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoops Rumors Live Chat: RFA Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoops Rumors is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live.jotcast.com\/chat\/hoops-rumors-live-chat-7-31-2025-rfa-edition-21906.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hosting a live chat<\/a> today at 1:00 pm Central time (2:00 pm Eastern).<\/p>\n<p>Given that restricted free agency \u2013 and the fate of players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuminjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/giddejo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Giddey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grimequ01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quentin Grimes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomaca02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cam Thomas<\/a> \u2013 has been the biggest subject of discussion and speculation around the NBA in the past week, we\u2019re dedicating today\u2019s chat to RFA-related questions.<\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019re still welcome to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live.jotcast.com\/chat\/hoops-rumors-live-chat-7-31-2025-rfa-edition-21906.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">submit questions<\/a> unrelated to restricted free agency, I\u2019ll be looking to focus primarily on RFA-related topics, since I\u2019ve seen some confusion about how exactly certain parts of the process work and what rules apply in various scenarios (a player accepting a qualifying offer, how many years an offer sheet must cover, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>So whether you\u2019re seeking clarity about some specific minor aspect of restricted free agency \u2013 such as the details on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithdr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dru Smith<\/a>\u2018s qualifying offer since he\u2019s no longer eligible for a two-way deal with the Heat \u2013 or have a bigger-picture question about, say, what Kuminga\u2019s next contract will look like, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live.jotcast.com\/chat\/hoops-rumors-live-chat-7-31-2025-rfa-edition-21906.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">feel free to send it in<\/a>. I\u2019ll get to as many of them as I can during our chat at 1:00 pm CT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoops Rumors is hosting a live chat today at 1:00 pm Central time (2:00 pm Eastern). Given that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-50392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}