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Dennis Schröder Biography, Age, Career and Net Worth

Dennis Mike Schröder is a German professional basketball player. He plays for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dennis Schröder was born on 15 September 1993 in Braunschweig, Germany to a German father and a Gambian mother. Career Dennis Schroder embarked on his basketball journey in 2010 within the German professional leagues, specifically playing for SG…

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5 winners and 3 losers in NBA free agency so far

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Here are our early winners and losers in NBA free agency so far.

The NBA wasted zero time getting the free agency bonanza going this year. Lonzo Ball’s $85 million deal with the Chicago Bulls via a sign-and-trade was announced the moment the moratorium period opened on Monday at 6 p.m. ET. That set the tone for a wild day of transactions that saw a large percentage of the league’s free agents give their commitments on day one.

The champion Bucks brought back a key piece on a bargain deal in Bobby Portis, but lost out on P.J. Tucker when he signed wit the Heat. The Phoenix Suns locked up Chris Paul and re-signed Cameron Payne. The Los Angeles Lakers brought back many old friends — Dwight Howard and Trevor Ariza included — as they look to remake the bench. Kawhi Leonard, the top free agent in this year’s class, remains unsigned, but all indications are he’ll eventually re-sign with the Clippers.

Check out our running list of every signing in NBA free agency here. Here are five winners and three losers that stood out from day one.

2021 NBA free agency winners

Miami Heat

The Heat were the most active team on day one of free agency. Let’s run down the moves:

Starting with the headliner: Kyle Lowry is on his way to Miami on a three-year, $90 million deal.

Jimmy Butler is signing a four-year, $184 million extension that will pay him more than $50 million per year in his age-36 season.

Duncan Robinson is staying with the Heat on a five-year, $90 million deal

PJ Tucker is coming to the Heat fresh off a championship run with the Bucks. He signed for two years, $15 million with a player option on the second season.

Lowry is still one of the better point guards in the game even at 35 years old, and he immediately gives the Heat another trusted weapon on both ends of the floor. His pull-up shooting should add some needed juice to the offense, and you already know Erik Spoelstra is going to deeply appreciate every charge. Tucker is another defensive ace they can go to in the toughest playoff matchups. The Heat (probably) aren’t getting swept out of the first round this year.

Yes, it’s a lot of money for Robinson and Butler, but they had to be kept long-term. The league keeps waiting for Butler to fall off after such a heavy minutes load, but he was still excellent last season. Robinson is an amazing shooter and amazing shooters get paid. The Heat feel like they will be a factor in the East again even if they remain a cut below the Bucks and Nets.

Chicago Bulls

The Bulls have missed the playoffs the last four seasons since trading Butler, but there’s no more excuses this year. Chicago felt pressure to make a postseason run with Zach LaVine entering the last year of his contract and with the franchise trading two first round draft picks for Nikola Vucevic mid-season. The Bulls still needed another major talent infusion to have a chance to shoot up the standings, and it feels like they got one on day one:

Lonzo Ball and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to a four-year, $85 million deal in a sign-and-trade agreement, according to Woj. Garrett Temple, Tomas Satoransky, and a second round pick are reportedly going to New Orleans in the deal, per Shams.

Alex Caruso is signing with the Bulls for four years, $37 million, per Woj.

Ball will immediately be the best passer on the Bulls. He also gives the team a stout defender on the perimeter, a high-volume three-point shooter, and a tempo-pusher who loves throwing deep outlet passes in transition.

Caruso brings ferocious on-ball defense, which will be a huge help for a Bulls team that often saw its guards get roasted on that end last season. He’ll need to prove he can score after averaging only about six points per game over the last two seasons, but he did hit 40 percent of his threes on low volume last year while also ranking in the 82nd percentile for rim attempts at his position, per Cleaning the Glass.

The Bulls lost Daniel Theis to Houston in addition to Satoransky and Temple to New Orleans, but this is the sort of talent infusion they needed. Front office boss Arturas Karnisovas has fully put his stamp on the team.

Chris Paul’s bank account

Chris Paul had made $300 million in NBA contracts before entering free agency again this year at age-36. He was always going to cash in again after helping lead the Phoenix Suns on an inspired run to the NBA Finals in his debut season with the team, and that happened in a big way.

Paul is signing a four-year extension worth up to $120 million. The third year of the deal is reportedly a partial guarantee, while the fourth year is unguaranteed. If Paul finishes out the deal, he’ll be making $30 million per year at age-40.

Paul’s career earnings if he finishes out this contact would be $420 million. Not bad work if you can get it.

David Nwaba

The headline names always get the most coverage in free agency, but sometimes the best stories come from the role players only hardcore fans have heard of. David Nwaba is an example of that after he signed a three-year, $15 million deal with a team option on the final season.

Nwaba’s path to the NBA is wild. He started his career at the DII level, transferred to a junior college, and then found a home at Cal Poly, a low-major DI school. Nwaba went undrafted but grinded his way into an NBA opportunity on the Lakers’ G League team. After the Lakers, he had stints with the Bulls, Cavs, and Nets. His tenure in Brooklyn ended with a torn Achilles.

A torn Achilles is the type of injury that could end the NBA career of a player on the fringes of the league, but it didn’t stop Nwaba. He returned to play 30 games for the Rockets last year and looked fully healthy in showing off his signature brand of energetic defense. The Rockets liked him enough to give him $10 million guaranteed with the potential to reach $15 million. That’s life changing money for a player who has had to bust his ass for every opportunity to this point in his career.

Cheers to Nwaba for finally securing a multi-year deal and a nice bag.

Lakers exes

The Lakers brought back a lot of old friends on day one of free agency. Let’s run down the list:

Dwight Howard is back

Trevor Ariza is back

Wayne Ellington is back

It’s Howard’s third stint back with the team. Ariza hasn’t been a Laker since his breakout role player days on the team that reached the NBA Finals in 2008 and won it all in 2009. Ellington hasn’t been on the team since 2014-2015, which was Kobe Bryant’s penultimate season. LA also signed Kent Bazemore away from the Warriors.

Former Lakers had a good run in free agency, too, with Alex Caruso signing for the midlevel exception and Reggie Bullock netting $30 million.

2021 NBA free agency losers

Dennis Schröder

While the rest of the big name point guards went off the board in day one, Schröder stayed on the market. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and there’s no doubt Schröder will sign a contract soon. It just won’t be for the reported $84 million the Lakers offered him in-season.

Schröder initially thought he could get $100-$120 million on the open market when he rejected the Lakers’ big offer. Instead, he had a rough end of the season and struggled in LA’s first round playoff loss to the Suns. The Lakers were ready to move on, and his market around the league was quiet enough for him to go unsigned through the first day.

Schröder will still get a nice deal, but he’s not getting nearly as much money as he turned down a few months ago. File this under ‘when betting on yourself goes wrong.’

The Knicks’ cap space creativity

The Knicks reportedly had as much cap space as any team in the league upon entering free agency. It felt like New York could finally be a free agency juggernaut coming off a shocking run to the No. 4 seed in the East last season, but they ended up using their money to bring back most of their own guys.

The Knicks locked up Derrick Rose to a $43 million deal over three years

Nerlens Noel is coming back on a $30 million deal

Alec Burks is also getting $30 million for three years

Each of these players was on a bargain contract last year. It’s nice that they were rewarded for their contributions to a winning team, but it feels like the Knicks could have dreamed bigger. It also stings that Reggie Bullock, a starter on last year’s squad, left for Dallas.

The Knicks did make a big move signing Evan Fournier to a $78 million deal. He will definitely provide some offensive punch the team was missing last season. In general, though, the Knicks’ moves on day one of free agency feel a little underwhelming.

Teams feeling pressure to win that need more moves

There is a long way to go in this offseason, but some teams are clearly feeling more pressure to win than others. A few of those teams still have a lot more work to do.

The Trail Blazers made a big move by signing Norman Powell to a five-year, $90 million deal. Powell was a top-10 free agent on the market, but he was also on Portland when they lost in the playoffs to the Jamal Murray-less Nuggets in the first round. Damian Lillard has been adamant he wants to see the Blazers swing for the fences to win now, and that hasn’t happened just yet.

The Pelicans also need to bolster the roster around a reportedly unhappy Zion Williamson this offseason. They are off to a questionable start: losing Lonzo hurts, but they recovered by bringing in Devonte’ Graham. Graham’s shooting will play nicely next to Williamson, but it feels like a talent downgrade in a vacuum. They also had to give up a lottery-protected first round pick to get Charlotte to avoid matching. New Orleans still has a lot of work to do.

The Mavericks had a good start to free agency by bringing back Tim Hardaway Jr., and signing Reggie Bullock and Sterling Brown. It feels like they still need a big move though and it’s hard to see where it comes from right now.

What is the Raptors’ plan for next year? Toronto had cap space coming into free agency, and the only move they made on day one was resigning Gary Trent Jr. to a $54 million deal. Losing Lowry, the greatest player in franchise history, is a huge bummer. Are the Raps playing for a lottery pick next year? Are they playing to sneak into the playoffs? Either way, the upside of this roster doesn’t feel particularly high.

We’ll keep you updated on every signing here. Happy free agency.

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Predicting where the 11 best NBA free agents will sign in 2021

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Kawhi Leonard and Chris Paul headline the 2021 free agency class.

NBA free agency is finally here. Players will be able to negotiate with teams on Aug. 2 at 6 p.m. ET. Deals can’t become official until the free agency moratorium ends on Aug. 6 at 12:01 p.m. ET.

The biggest free agent in this year’s class never hit the open market. Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a five-year, $228 million extension with the Milwaukee Bucks just before the start of the season, and then led the franchise to its first NBA championship since 1972. Antetokounmpo would have been one of the biggest free agents in the history of sports if he hit the open market. Instead, this year’s class feels a little underwhelming at the top.

Kawhi Leonard is the biggest name on the free agent market, but it would be a shock to see him leave the Los Angeles Clippers. The same goes for Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns. It feels likely Kyle Lowry is the top free agent to actually change teams this summer. Of course, there will be plenty of movement from mid-tier free agents. This list doesn’t include players like Duncan Robinson, Dennis Schröder, Richaun Holmes, Kelly Oubre, and Will Barton, who should all sign big money deals and will be each be a possibility to change teams.

Before free agency opens, here are our predictions on where the biggest names sign.

1. Kawhi Leonard

Leonard is the top free agent in the class even with a partially torn ACL. While we don’t’ know when or if Leonard will play next season, the injury won’t preclude him from locking up as big of a contract as he wants. Remember: Kevin Durant signed a four-year, $164 million deal with the Brooklyn Nets months after tearing his Achilles in the NBA Finals.

The recent rumors are that Leonard will sign a ‘1+1’ deal with the Clippers, which means he’ll have a player option on the second season. The Clippers have already reshaped their entire franchise to accommodate Kawhi since he signed as a free agent in 2019, and there shouldn’t be any hesitation to do it again. He’s the only top-10 player in the league available this summer.

Prediction: Two-year max contract with Clippers, player option on the second year

2. Chris Paul

Paul remains one of the best point guards in the NBA even at 36 years old. For all the concern that he wouldn’t live up to the most recent max contract he signed in 2018, Paul ended up being worth every penny and more. He is of course coming off an inspired season with the Phoenix Suns, where he helped lead them on an unlikely run to the NBA Finals. He’s about to get one more big pay day.

There’s always some concern that Phoenix’s historically penny-pinching owner Robert Starver could stop short of giving Paul all the money he wants, but it’s unlikely after the Finals run. Paul has already earned $300 million in career earnings on NBA deals, and he might be set to add about $90 million more.

Prediction: 3 years, $90 million with Suns.

3. Mike Conley

The Jazz made a bold move to trade for Conley two years ago, and they saw how good he could be this past season. Conley made the first All-Star team of his career at age-33 and helped lead the Jazz to the best record in the NBA during the regular season. Unfortunately, he suffered a hamstring injury in the NBA playoffs, and only played one game in Utah’s second round loss to the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA playoffs.

Whether or not the Jazz want to fully run it back next season, Conley figures to be in their plans. There’s a rumored three-year, $75 million deal for him to return to Utah.

Prediction: 3 years, $75 million with Jazz

4. John Collins

The Hawks and Collins failed to come to an agreement on a rookie extension, so now he enters the market as a restricted free agent. Atlanta already has some big salaries on the books, but it would feel foolish to let Collins slip away. The springy 6’9 forward certainly made himself some more money after a great run in the NBA Playoffs as the Hawks reached the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Spurs, Pelicans, and Thunder are all rumors to have interest in Collins, but the Hawks can match any contract since he’s a restricted free agent. Expect him to something close to a max deal.

Prediction: 5 years, $120 million with Hawks

5. Jarrett Allen

The Cavs just drafted Evan Mobley at No. 3 overall, but there’s still plenty of room for Allen. Mobley is skilled enough to play the four, and his lack of bulk makes him a nice fit next to a more traditional center early in his career. Allen fits the bill as a super long (7’6 wingspan) and bouncy center who can protect the paint and catch lobs. The Cavs were made a sharp move to acquire the 23-year-old as part of the trade that sent James Harden to Brooklyn.

Allen is also a restricted free agent, so he’s all but certain to return to Cleveland. He’s another player who should get around $100 million on this deal.

Prediction: 5 years, $90 million with Cavs

6. Kyle Lowry

Lowry is still very good at 35 years old. He was almost moved at the trade deadline, but no team wanted to meet the Raptors’ asking price. Now he’s possibly the biggest name on the free agent market expected to change teams.

There are plenty of teams who need a point guard this offseason. The Miami Heat and New Orleans Pelicans both covet Lowry, and there may or may not be a deal already in place with the Heat. Lowry should send CP3 a thankful after he inks his next deal for showing the value of veteran point guards during the playoffs.

Prediction: Sign-and-trade to Heat for 3 years, $85 million

7. Lonzo Ball

Ball hasn’t fully lived up to the hype after becoming the No. 2 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, but he’s gotten better every season of his career and seems to have fully fixed his three-point shot. On the brink of his 24th birthday, Ball feels like one of the oddest players in the NBA: he’s a point guard in name only with an inability to attack the basket or get to the foul line, but he’s a credible floor spacer, quick ball mover, and capable team defender.

The Chicago Bulls have been rumored to like Ball for the last eight months or so. The Pelicans can still match any contract offer he gets since he’s a restricted free agent. New Orleans appears to have its sights set on other guards, but things can change quickly if they fail to land Lowry (reportedly their top option). If Ball wants to be in Chicago, a sign-and-trade between the two sides is likely. Expect Ball to get a deal around five years and $80 million.

Prediction: Sign-and-trade to Bulls for 4 years, $80 million

8. Spencer Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie’s market should be fascinating. He’s a big 6’5 guard who averaged 20 points per game for the Brooklyn Nets and showed serious creation ability while Kevin Durant was out during the 2019-2020 season. Dinwiddie suffered a partially torn ACL in late December, but has been cleared to return to basketball activities. He’s almost certainly not coming back to Brooklyn.

Dinwiddie’s rough three-point shooting —he’s a 31.8 percent shooter behind the arc for his career — limits his impact off the ball, but he still should have plenty of options for point guard hungry teams. The Pelicans, Knicks, and Mavericks all feel like possible options.

Prediction: Sign-and-trade with Wizards for 4 years, $80 million

9. DeMar DeRozan

Lowry’s old running mate with the Raptors is on the open market too after spending the last three seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. While a return to San Antonio is possible, it feels likely DeRozan will change teams.

There has been buzz connecting DeRozan to the Los Angeles Lakers, but that would likely require him taking a pay cut. A team like the New York Knicks, flushed with cap space, seems like it could be an option on a two- or three-year deal.

Prediction: 2 years, $40 million with Knicks

10. Norman Powell

Powell is coming off a breakout season in his sixth year in the league that saw him set career marks in scoring (18.6 points per game) and three-point shooting (41.1 percent on six attempts per game). He was traded from the Raptors to the Portland Trail Blazers midseason, and looks primed to get a fat contract this summer from the Blazers or another suitor.

A return to Portland is the most likely option, but this also feels like a case where a surprise team could snatch him away with a huge offer. Damian Lillard’s unhappiness with the Blazers will feel more urgent than ever if Powell isn’t re-signed.

Prediction: 4 years, $90 million with Trail Blazers

11. Tim Hardaway Jr.

Hardaway was thought to be overpaid after the Knicks originally signed him to a four-year, $70 million deal, but he’s probably been Luka Doncic’s best teammate since he got traded to the Mavericks. Hardaway does something every NBA team covets: he shoots threes at a high volume at nearly a 40 percent clip.

A return to the Mavericks is possible and maybe likely, but Hardaway should have plenty of suitors. The Pelicans and Spurs feel like they should also be options.

Prediction: 4 years, $65 million with Pelicans