Bobby Marks: Robert Williams has a $223,215 bonus as part of his rookie extension. However, because Williams is still in the fourth year of his rookie scale contract, the bonus is not earned. The bonus is now deemed likely and his cap hit for 2022-23 is adjusted to $10,937,502.
Bobby Marks: Robert Williams has a $223,215 bonus as pa…
June 27, 2022 | 11:03 am EDT Update
Malik Monk open to accepting less money to stay with Lakers
Malik Monk said he’d consider accepting less money than his market price to stay with the Lakers for the taxpayer midlevel exception. “They might not be able to pay me as much as I want,” he said. “But I could be here and be way more comfortable as a Laker than going to any other team (that would pay) me $5 million more. So it’s just me trying to figure out what team would really want me.”
As Monk weighs the most significant factors of his free agency, money is obviously important, but it’s not the most important one. Role and minutes are more notable considerations. “Money is always a part, man, but I don’t think it’s the biggest priority in my free agency this year,” Monk said. “It’s me feeling like I’m having a home and I can go out there and do the same things I did this year.”
But he believes he’s entering this summer with more leverage and more of a market. “I had another career year, with all my numbers and things like that,” Monk told The Athletic. “I can’t be down on myself.”
Former Jazz player Naz Mitrou-Long signed with Italian team Olimpia Milano until the 2024-25 season.
The name of Calhoun Street would change to Oscar Robertson Way if a campaign led by a former University of Cincinnati basketball player turned UC executive succeeds.
There is a street named for Robertson in Indianapolis, where he grew up, called Oscar Robertson Boulevard. It runs in front of the former Crispus Attucks High School, a segregated school for Black students that Robertson attended – and where he set athletic records despite the building having no gym.
The start date for WNBA star Brittney Griner’s trial in Moscow has been set for July 1, more than four months after she was arrested at a Moscow airport for cannabis possession. The date was revealed Monday after Griner, 31, appeared in a Moscow court for a preliminary hearing ahead of trial. The Phoenix Mercury center was also ordered to remain in custody for the duration of her criminal trial.
June 27, 2022 | 11:02 am EDT Update
Breakup between John Wall, Rockets gaining momentum
There were some trade talks involving a few teams on draft night, but none of those deals materialized. With the draft now behind them, the Rockets plan to reassess things with Wall. Sources say a breakup between Wall and the franchise is gaining momentum, with both sides expected to meet this week with Wall’s hope of a resolution — a trade or, more likely, a buyout — by the June 30 start of free agency.
