NBA Rumor: Aron Baynes Free Agency

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Aron Baynes eyeing NBA return

1 year ago – via Brian Windhorst @ ESPN
Baynes turned 35 during this ordeal, and his goal is to get back to the NBA next season. He’s rehabbing aggressively every day. “He has no off switch, he wants to do it eight hours a day. We try to back him off but it’s not in his nature,” Moldovan says. Part of his drive to get back to the league is because of how much he is enjoying the way NBA referees are calling the games this year. More physical play is being allowed, which favors his long-preferred style. “It looks so much more fun now. That’s how I grew up playing and I really want to get back to it,” Baynes says.

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1 year ago – via Brian Windhorst @ ESPN

In the confusion of the moment, no one had realized that Baynes had lost his ability to walk. Or that he was headed for a nightmare that would derail his basketball career and leave him isolated in a Japanese hospital, weeping in pain day after day, with the possibility that he might be paralyzed. “The loneliest time in my life was laying in that hospital, going in and out of consciousness, going over my life plan and my goals and just crying,” Baynes says, speaking about the ordeal for the first time. “My uncle Don had an accident 10 years ago. He’s a quadriplegic,” he says. “My family’s had first-hand experience with this going down. I was so scared.”
1 year ago – via Brian Windhorst @ ESPN

Baynes couldn’t communicate well with the Japanese nurses and doctors. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo was in a state of emergency, so Baynes couldn’t have anyone from the team with him. “He sent me a picture of the holes in his arm and said the doctor was checking him out and the next thing I know he’s in hospital bed and his texts were panicked,” says Daniel Moldovan, Baynes’ longtime agent. “No one could get us any answers. We were scrambling for information and trying to keep [his wife] Rachel updated in Australia. I wanted to take the next flight but at that point I couldn’t even get into Japan.”
1 year ago – via Roy Ward @ Sydney Morning Herald

Aron Baynes not playing this season

As much as NBL teams would love to have Baynes clogging up the key, Hoops Heaven reached out to the Baynes camp and was told he is still hard at work building up his body and won’t be playing for anyone this season. Baynes has all his focus on playing in the NBA next season and isn’t considering the NBL. NBA teams would love to have a rim defender and rebounder of Baynes’ quality next season; let’s hope he can regain the match fitness and strength to make this a reality.
3 years ago – via Zach Harper @ The Athletic

According to league sources, several playoff teams are hoping to lure him to their franchise. They see the value in having someone like Baynes to come in and just accept whatever role is thrown at him. The Suns also have plenty of interest in bringing him back, according to league sources. Whether that’s a starting position or as a key backup, Baynes could command the mid-level exception or not far from it. The taxpayer MLE should be somewhere in that $6 million to $6.5 million range.
3 years ago – via Zach Harper @ The Athletic

You are a free agent. Everything has been so truncated for the offseason, how does that change anything for you? Obviously things have to be sped up in terms of the process, but how do you approach that? How does your representation approach that? How do you approach that whirlwind? Aron Baynes: “It’s like you said — whirlwind. It’s going to be helter-skelter. It’s gonna be about two weeks from the draft until training camp. It’s going to be a unique situation and hopefully it’s going to be a good situation for all the players involved. Hopefully guys are able to go out there, find the right situation, and be put in the right situation. For myself, that’s something my team has been able to do for me. Always find a good situation for me to go to. I’ve enjoyed every single step along my career.
3 years ago – via Zach Harper @ The Athletic

Aron Baynes: “Between us and whatever comes our way, we can find the right situation. Until then, I’m just going to enjoy here in Phoenix, being here with the family, and working out every single day with the guys here that I’ve built a solid relationship with. I enjoy going to battle with these guys. Until free agency opens, I’m just going to continue in my day-to-day routine and let the agent and everyone else involved do their thing. If you’re going to focus on it too much, you’re going to go crazy. Especially knowing how quickly everything’s probably going to happen this year.”
3 years ago – via Olgun Uluc @ ESPN

“Everything’s so fluid right now,” Baynes said of his free agency. “That’s why you’ve got to lean on people you trust. For me, it’s my agent, and I know that’s the business side of basketball. I’ve been through it too many times to tie anything emotional to it, as much as you want to. You do have these connections throughout basketball and throughout the teams you’ve played for and where you’ve gone and also the outlook for your family. Everything weighs in to it.
4 years ago – via Celtics Blog

Aron Baynes sounds like a guy that wants to come back next season. The Australian chatted with CLNS’ very own Adam Kaufman on this week’s Celtics Beat. “I love Boston. Boston’s been great to me. My family is comfortable here” said the Celtics big man. “I have to have a chat with Danny and Brad in the next couple of weeks. Want to see what their thoughts are as well. If everything lines up I’d still love to come back.” “My heart is still in this…I want to add to the Celtics legacy,” he concluded.
5 years ago – via NBA.com

The Boston Celtics have re-signed center Aron Baynes, the team announced today. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Baynes, 31, started in 67 of his 81 games played during his first season with the Celtics in 2017-18, averaging 6.0 points (47.1% FG, 75.6% FT) and 5.4 rebounds in 18.3 minutes. He anchored the Celtics league-leading defense, which allowed just 97.6 points per 100 possessions with him on the court (3rd best among players who played in half of their team’s games).
5 years ago – via The Athletic

Q: You’ve said you would like to see Aron Baynes and Marcus Smart return. If they leave, what are the most irreplaceable qualities those guys brought to the team? Brad STEVENS: We want them back for a number of reasons. Their energy is contagious, and it’s contagious every day. I tell the story all the time about (how) Aron Baynes races people in warmups. And he just brings an infectiousness that I can’t describe. And I think, like, my thoughts of this team are him and Marcus running down the court flying as everybody’s supposed to be doing high knees and warming up. Marcus has been like that for the last four years in everything that he’s done. So I think it’s their infectiousness. And I think with that comes a real reliability that is consistently shown on both ends of the court and certainly their prep. But on the court they do a lot of things that lead to winning — some that show up in a box score and many others that don’t.
5 years ago – via NBC Sports

From an individual basis, Baynes has grown more in Boston than he has with any other franchise — San Antonio included. Yes, he won a title with the Spurs in 2014, but Baynes’ role on that team was significantly different, and far less impactful, than what he did in Boston. And that is in part why, according to multiple league sources, Baynes is expected to return to Boston next season. Following the player’s exit interviews, Baynes made no secret about wanting to be back. And the Celtics’ brass has been clear about their intentions of bringing him back in the fold.
6 years ago – via Detroit News

Van Gundy said that Baynes worked out at the Pistons practice facility on Tuesday and the two spoke about the situation. He didn’t close the door on possibly getting the reserve center back, including using Baynes early Bird rights to increase the offer to around $11.3 million. “There are a lot of scenarios where we can bring Aron back so that’s not a done deal, but we knew the opt-out was coming,” Van Gundy said. “Right now on our salary structure, if you look at where our roster is, we can’t pay him that right now and be under the tax. “Things change as the summer goes on, but there are scenarios where he could be back. But right now, some things would have to happen.”
6 years ago – via Booth Newspapers

Should Baynes opt out, and it’s expected he does, the most the Pistons could offer him would be $11.375 million per season, an 175 percent increase on his current salary. It’s believed he will be able to sign for more than that next season, especially with the NBA salary cap set to increase again for the 2017-18 season. “We have a lot of respect for him,” Van Gundy said. “He’s a guy that we obviously play really well with. And he’s a big part of what we’re doing now. We didn’t want to give him up.”
6 years ago – via Booth Newspapers

6 years ago – via Detroit Free Press

Citing unnamed sources, Basketball Insiders published a story Wednesday afternoon saying the Pistons were gauging interest in backup centers Baynes and Boban Marjanovic, adding that Baynes will decline his player option for next season. Baynes told the Free Press after Wednesday night’s 118-98 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans that no decision has been made. He responded with a laugh when asked about the report. “I don’t know about that,” Baynes said. “I’m just focused on the season right now. That’s all I’m doing, just playing basketball. I have an agent. That’s the unfortunate side of basketball, but I let him do his thing. I’m just out there trying to do mine.”
7 years ago – via Basketball Insiders

However, another player in a contract season may not return to the Pistons. “Aron [Baynes] is a really good player and I said this after the last game, we’re going to be in a difficult situation by the [CBA] rules of trying to re-sign him next summer,” Van Gundy said. “I’m supposed to downplay him, not play him up and tell you, ‘You know, that guy’s a pretty solid backup,’ but the bottom line is he’s a starting-caliber NBA center who we’re very lucky to have as a backup.”
7 years ago – via NBA.com

Everything the Pistons have come to love about Baynes is what will compel competitors to steal him away next July. It’s all due to an NBA collective bargaining agreement arcana. Baynes’ side negotiated an opt-out clause following the 2016-17 season when he signed as a free agent with the Pistons in July 2015. Holding Baynes’ rights for two seasons gives the Pistons partial Bird rights – but not full Bird rights. And that difference limits them to offering Baynes – on the slam-dunk assumption that he’ll exercise his contract option – 175 percent of his 2016-17 salary, reportedly $6.5 million, or an offer no greater than $11.375 million for next year.
7 years ago – via NBA.com

7 years ago – via Booth Newspapers

Aaron McMann: Certaines are few and far between in sports, particularly basketball, but barring injury or some unforeseen circumstance that I can’t come up with at this time, Aron Baynes will opt out of his contract over the summer. He would be a fool not to. Baynes signed a three-year, $20 million contract with the Pistons two summers ago, good money for a backup center. But that was before the salary cap explosion last summer, with another increase coming next, and backup big men were pulling in contracts for $15-18 million a season. In fact, Pistons president-coach Stan Van Gundy said pregame Wednesday in New York Baynes could command as much as $18 million. If that’s the case, the Pistons simply cannot afford him.
7 years ago – via Detroit Free Press

Baynes will go back to his normal position in the post when he comes to training camp this month. It could be his last season with the Pistons. He’s under contract to make $6.5 million this year and has an early termination option on his contract for 2017-18. Because the Pistons might not have enough money to keep the veteran center if he were to exercise his option and become a free agent, the team went out and signed 7-foot-3 Boban Marjanovic as insurance.
7 years ago – via Detroit Free Press

“We’re limited in what we can do with Aron next year,” Van Gundy said. “Two things happen: No.1, by rule, if Aron does opt out, we’re limited in how much we can offer him, by rule, because he leaves in two years. There’s only a certain percentage of his salary we’re allowed to offer him, and it comes in under $12 million a year. If you look at where the prices on big guys went this year on guys like Bismack Biyombo and Ian Mahinmi, that’s far beyond that $12 million. There could be a possible scenario where we wouldn’t be able to compete to keep him.
7 years ago – via NBA.com

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