Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

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Golden State has started exploring trade routes for Kristaps Porzingis, who is now seriously contemplating his future in basketball as he deals with recurring symptoms from the autoimmune condition termed as POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), sources tell ESPN.

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So the team with the most access to him as a free agent got conned into gifting him $40 million, guaranteed over two seasons and now the entire world realizes he's never going to suit up for them again...and they're hoping someone will just magically agree to take that contract off of their hands???!!!

I mean, I suppose they might be able to move him in a package for one of the 5 worst deals in the NBA or something crazy like that, but my GOODNESS do they have egg on their face right about now!

Also, at what point can everyone involved, the league, players union, whomever, admit that some of these fully guaranteed deals are hurting the product? I'm not saying the NBA should go full NFL with its contracts (the opposite is happening, honestly), but in situations like THIS, the team should have some recourse. They probably do in terms of real-world dollars, but I mean with the CAP.