JaVale McGee has agreed to sign with the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $20.1 million deal.

McGee spent last season with the Phoenix Suns.

McGee is represented by B.J. Armstrong. 

Jalen Brunson intends to sign a four-year, $110 million deal with the New York Knicks at the start of free agency. The deal will likely be worth approximately $105 million plus additional incentives. 

Brunson informed the Dallas Mavericks of his plans. The Mavericks were never given a chance to make an offer to Brunson.

Dallas declined the opportunity to extend Brunson on a four-year, $56 million extension multiple times during the 21-22 season.

The Knicks cleared cap space in the week before the start of free agency to make an offer to Brunson. Brunson's father, Rick Brunson, was hired by the Knicks as an assistant coach this offseason. Brunson's former agent, Leon Rose, runs New York's front office. 

Brunson averaged 16.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 79 games during the regular season.

Jalen Brunson will meet with the New York Knicks and Dallas Mavericks at the start of free agency, as well as the Miami Heat in a surprise move.

The Heat would need the Mavericks to participate in a sign-and-trade in order to acquire Brunson.

The Knicks are viewed as the frontrunners for Brunson with an offer of $110 million over four years. Dallas was initially hoping to come to terms on a five-year, $106 million deal

We say it every summer, but this year’s NBA free agency has the potential to be one of the wildest in recent memory. Though Kyrie Irving’s decision to opt into the final year of his contract with the Brooklyn Nets — taking him off the board as the league’s most coveted free agent — there’s still a chance he could be on the move if GM Sean Marks wants to cut his losses. In typical NBA fashion, a trade could dictate how everything else plays out.

For instance, what happens if Jaylen Brown get dealt? Or Kevin  Durant?

There’s plenty of intrigue with this year’s free agency, which begins on Thursday, June 30, at 6 p.m. ET. We’ve already heard rumors of the first domino falling, with John Wall expected to be bought out by the Houston Rockets and then sign with the LA Clippers.

Sports betting apps see Wall’s addition — and the impending return of a healthy Kawhi Leonard — as big enough news to vault the Clippers near the top of the NBA title odds list. With Wall’s signing and the expectation that Irving stays, here’s where oddsmakers have pegged title favorites:

2023 NBA Title Odds

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Which NBA Free Agency Moves Could Move Odds

Though we don’t expect Irving, Kevin Durant or James Harden to be swapping uniforms on Thursday, there are some big names who should make headlines shortly after the clock strikes 6 p.m.

We expect that the Bulls (+2500 title odds) will retain Zach LaVine with a five-year maximum deal, but the Phoenix Suns (+1000) seem reluctant to pay former top pick Deandre Ayton. Jalen Brunson may have priced himself out of Dallas (+1400) with a strong postseason, while the Hornets (+10000) will need to decide what Miles Bridges is worth as they rebuild around LaMelo Ball.

In terms of what moves could swing title odds most, the Suns would likely see a dip if Ayton leaves — but one would expect GM James Jones to have a backup plan to replace his 17.2 points and 10.2 rebounds. Arizona sports betting apps might see a spike in activity, depending on how things play out.

It would sting for the Mavericks to lose Brunson after he played alongside Luka Doncic to get Dallas to the Western Conference Finals, but they also traded for Christian Wood and drafted Jaden Hardy a week ago. They aren’t going anywhere as long as No. 77 is upright.

The Warriors are the defending champs and seem intent on running it back. Both Kevon Looney and Gary Payton II are expected to re-sign with Golden State when free agency begins, meaning Steve Kerr’s group will return seven of its top eight rotation players from last year’s title squad.

Other contenders could make giant splashes that we’re not sure exist right now, but it’ll be tough for any group to surpass the Warriors as title favorites.

Spurs-Hawks Swap could Shake Up East

More trade rumors abound as we near the start of free agency, and the latest involves one of the top young guards in the league. Dejounte Murray could be heading to Atlanta, where he’d form an intriguing — and stellar — backcourt duo with Trae Young.

The Hawks (+6600) struggled last season, but adding Murray, who finished second in the Most Improved Players voting behind Ja Morant, would give them the potential to earn a top-4 seed in the East. The Spurs feel content to rebuild, and it could be the Hawks who wind up as big winners because of it.

Stick a Fork In the Lakers?

The Lakers are just +1400 to win next year’s NBA title, an almost unthinkable set of odds considering they’ll once again be led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis. But last year’s injury-riddled, Russ Westbrook-tanking season didn’t leave oddsmakers any choice. T

here was a thought that Irving would sign for the Mid-Level Exception in LA, but that’s no longer an option. Instead, the Lakers will need to get creative to fill some serious holes — and decide what to do with Westbrook — without much cap flexibility.

Rob Pelinka has built a title roster before, but this might be asking a lot.

The Dallas Mavericks would focus their attention on signing Goran Dragic should Jalen Brunson leave in free agency, sources told Marc Stein.

Dragic played in 21 games last season for the Raptors and Nets, averaging 7.4 points and 4.1 assists.

Brunson is expected to receive a four-year, $110 million contract from the Knicks when free agency opens on Thursday. 

The New York Knicks have lined themselves up to pursue Jalen Brunson in free agency and there is "a growing resignation" among the Dallas Mavericks that they will lose him, writes Marc Stein of Substack. The concern is that the Knicks have become Brunson's "top choice and his inevitable destination."

Tim Cato of The Athletic reports that Brunson leaving the Mavericks for the Knicks "at this point, [is] seen as a certainty."

The Mavericks twice passed on the opportunity to sign Brunson to a four-year, $55 million extension. Brunson will likely sign for approximately twice that amount in free agency.

Brunson was a second round pick out of Villanova in 2018.

The Dallas Mavericks want to re-sign Jalen Brunson, and have publicly made that known. The New York Knicks can't publicly say they want to sign Brunson, but they seem to be gearing up for a run at the free agent point guard.

After the 2022 NBA Draft, where New York cleared some additional 2022 cap space, it now seems like Brunson's options are down to the Mavs or Knicks. The Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers are no longer being mentioned as potential destinations for Brunson. The Washington Wizards, who have openly talked about their need for a point guard, have no real path towards signing Brunson.

Brunson's next contract is expected to be somewhere in the range of four-years and $100 million. The Knicks are one salary-clearing deal away from creating the space to sign Brunson to a big enough first-year salary for a $100 million contract. The Mavericks can re-sign Brunson to any deal up to his max using his Bird Rights.

The New York Knicks expected to offer Jalen Brunson a four-year contract worth approximately $100 million when free agency opens next week, sources tell Marc Stein of Substack.

The Dallas Mavericks twice passed on the opportunity to extend Brunson on a four-year, $55.6 million deal, both before the season and in January. The Mavericks wanted to retain the ability to trade Brunson should a deal for a star become available. 

When the season ended, the Mavericks believed a four-year offer in the $88 million range would be enough to retain Brunson.

The Mavericks have the ability to offer Brunson a fifth year, but the Knicks can offer a bigger role plus the familiarity of his father, Rick Brunson, on the coaching staff and his former agent, Leon Rose, in charge of the front office. Brunson is also represented by Rose's son Sam Rose.

The Knicks used draft night to begin to clear additional cap space for free agency. 

The New York Knicks are the team on Kyrie Irving's list who could clear sufficient cap space to sign him outright, but they are believed to prefer the option of signing Jalen Brunson.

"The Knicks, they have some priorities well ahead of Kyrie Irving," "Jalen Brunson is who they are trying to clear cap space to sign in free agency, not Kyrie Irving."

The Knicks have been linked to Brunson for months with their connections to him in Leon Rose and his own father on Tom Thibodeau's coaching staff. The Knicks were interested in Irving during the 2019 offseason.

The Los Angeles Lakers have the "most interest" in acquiring Irving.

Kyrie Irving has the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers on his list of teams he would consider joining if he's unable to agree to terms on a contract with the Brooklyn Nets.

Irving and the Nets have been at an impasse for several weeks as the franchise has so far been unwilling to sign him to a long-term deal. 

All of the teams on Irving's list currently lack cap space to sign him to a max deal outright, which would mean Brooklyn would likely have to participate in a deal.