Blazers acquire Whiteside from Heat
THE MIAMI Heat agreed to send center Hassan Whiteside to Portland for forward Mo Harkless and center Meyers Leonard, ESPN reported Monday.
Whiteside averaged 12.3 points and 11.3 rebounds last season, his fifth consecutive year of averaging a double-double for the Heat. He has one year left on a four-year contract that is set to pay him $27 million next season.
Whiteside provides additional front-court help for the Trail Blazers while they await an uncertain return from 7-footer Jusuf Nurkic, who suffered compound fractures in his left leg in late March.
Whiteside, 30, has career averages of 13.4 points and 11.4 rebounds in parts of seven NBA seasons, all with Miami, except for 19 games with the Sacramento Kings from 2010 to 2012.
Harkless, 26, averaged 7.7 points and 4.5 rebounds in 60 games (53 starts) last season for Portland. Leonard, 27, averaged 5.9 points in 61 games last season and has a 38.5 3-point percentage in 393 career NBA games, all with the Blazers.
Seth Curry headed to Mavs on $32M deal -- reports
Sharpshooting free agent guard Seth Curry
agreed to a four-year, $32 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks, according to multiple reports Monday.
Curry, 28, averaged 7.9 points last season with the Portland Trail Blazers, making 45.0 percent of his 3- point attempts ( 113 of 251). He ranked third in the NBA in 3-point percentage, one spot ahead of his All-Star brother, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors (43.7 percent).
This will be Curry’s second tour with the Mavericks. He averaged a career- high 12.8 points and made 42 of his 53 career starts for Dallas in the 2016-17 season, when he hit 42.5 percent from behind the arc.
Curry has a career average of 9.3 points in five NBA seasons; he missed the 2017-18 season with the Mavericks because of a leg injury before becoming an unrestricted free agent and signing with Portland.
Heat work four-team
The Miami Heat finalized a sign-and-trade deal to acquire All-Star guard Jimmy Butler from the Philadelphia 76ers in a deal that required four teams, multiple outlets reported Monday.
Butler will reportedly get a max-level, four-year, $142 million contract.
The 76ers will receive wing Josh Richardson from Miami, who acquired forward Mo Harkless in trade with Portland on Monday before sending him and a future first-round pick to the Los Angeles Clippers.
Miami sent center Hassan Whiteside to the Trail Blazers to help clear cap space.
The 29-year-old Butler averaged 18.2 points on 46.1 shooting in 55 games with the Sixers last season after arriving in November via trade from the Minnesota Timberwolves.
A four-time All-Star, he has career averages of 16.7
points and 4.9 rebounds per game in eight NBA seasons.
Butler joins JJ Redick in leaving the 76ers, who reportedly will re-sign forward Tobias Harris on a five-year, $180 million deal and has agreed to sign former Boston Celtics big man Al Horford on a four-year contract.
Richardson will join
Philadelphia coming off a career season, having averaged 16.6 points, 4.1 assists and 3.6 rebounds -- all career highs -- in 73 games last season.
The 25- year- old has career averages of 12.1 points, 2.9 assists and 3.2 rebounds in 259 career games ( 190 starts) since the Heat drafted him in the second round in 2015.