Hassan Whiteside will hold three meetings in New York as he explores his free agency options.

Whiteside will meet with the Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trail Blazers.

Whiteside reportedly will not meet with the Los Angeles Lakers.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski, the Mavericks are emerging as frontrunners to sign Whiteside with the incumbent Heat losing ground.

Kevin Durant is widely expected to re-sign with the Oklahoma City Thunder for at least one more season.

Durant will meet with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Miami Heat, Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics and San Antonio Spurs.

“His decision is 90 percent made. It would take an amazing sales pitch to change it,” said one of Durant’s longtime friends.

Another Durant colleague said, “It’s going to take some sweet-talking to get him to pass up all the money he can get by staying in OKC.”

The Toronto Raptors have been granted the first meeting in free agency with DeMar DeRozan.

DeRozan will meet with the Raptors in Los Angeles on July 1st. DeRozan would like to re-sign with the Raptors.

DeRozan could meet with the Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers if he's unable to agree upon terms with the Raptors.

DeRozan is a free agent for the first time in his career.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets, Miami Heat, Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs are among the teams interested in signing Mozgov.

Mozgov had an excellent 14-15 season after coming over to the Cavaliers in a trade from the Denver Nuggets, but he struggled to get all the way healthy in 15-16 after offseason knee surgery.

The Cavs primarily used Tristan Thompson, Kevin Love and Channing Frye at the center spot in the playoffs.

Chris Bosh is making progress in his recovery from recurring blood clots, according to a source.

Bosh and the Miami Heat continue to work toward having him ready for the start of training camp.

Pat Riley will tout the potential return of Bosh as part of Miami's pitch to free agents.

Neither Bosh nor the Heat have said publicly where Bosh is in his recovery or whether he has continued a regimen of blood-thinning medication.

Jamal Crawford will meet with the Los Angeles Clippers, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and New York Knicks in free agency.

Crawford has said this offseason that his preference is to re-sign the Clippers.

Crawford is coming off a four-year, $25 million deal with the Clippers.

The Miami Heat and Erik Spoelstra are progressing on a contract extension.

Spoelstra is entering the final season of his contract in 16-17.

Spoelstra is the second-longest active tenured coach with one team, behind San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich.

The Heat have won two titles under Spoelstra and have remained competitive without LeBron James.

Dwyane Wade is prepared to consider offers from rival teams after initial contract discussions with the Miami Heat on a new contract have failed to produce common ground.

The Heat and Wade had several contentious weeks last year before they agreed on a one-year, $20 million deal for this past season.

At the end of the season, Wade said he hoped negotiations with the Heat would go more smoothly this summer.

"I hope that everything is quiet and works out the way I want it to," Wade said. "But I have no control over that, as much as people might think. It's a lot of moving parts in free agency. I'm not worried about it."

Miami has approximately $40 million in cap space and must use it to re-sign Hassan Whiteside as they don't earn his full Bird rights.

The Los Angeles Lakers' top priority in free agency is Kevin Durant but they are also interested in Harrison Barnes, Hassan Whiteside and Al Horford.

The Lakers have enough cap space to sign multiple max contract players.

Los Angeles also hired Luke Walton as head coach and they feel he and their young players make for an attractive situation to prospective free agents as they try to turnaround after multiple seasons of a rebuild.

Kevin Durant is expected to ultimately re-sign with the Oklahoma City Thunder on a one-plus-one contract and become a free agent again in 2017.

Teams meeting with Durant feel like they're laying the groundwork for his 2017 offseason as they anticipate that probable outcome.

The Thunder nearly reached The Finals in 2016 and the ability for Durant to re-sign on a short-term deal and then take a longer view when Russell Westbrook is also a free agent is appealing.

Even if Durant left the Thunder in free agency this summer, he would look for a one-plus-one contract in order to maximize his salary.