UNDATED (AP) – The Miami Heat can say goodbye to Dwyane (dwayn) Wade.
The 12-time NBA All-Star guard has ended his 13-year run with the team for a two-year, $47 million contract with the Bulls. Miami offered $40 million over two years for Wade to stay in the uniform that he’s worn his entire career
The Chicago native has averaged 23.7 points and 5.8 assists since being taken with the fifth overall pick in the 2003 draft. Wade scored 19 points a game while appearing in 74 games for the Heat last season.
Meanwhile, a person familiar with the trade says the Bulls have sent Mike Dunleavy to the Cleveland Cavaliers to help make room for the incoming Wade. The 35-year-old Dunleavy averaged a career-low 7.2 points in 31 games for the Bulls last season.
Chicago made further cap room by shipping guard Jose Calderon and two second-round draft picks to the Lakers. That’s according to someone with knowledge of the trade.
The revamped Chicago Bulls have announced the addition of point guard Rajon Rondo.
The team did not disclose terms of the contract, but a person with knowledge of the negotiations previously told The Associated Press that the four-time All-Star agreed to a $30 million, two-year deal.
Rondo replaces former MVP Derrick Rose, who was traded to New York before the draft. Also coming to Chicago is 12-time All-Star Dwyane Wade, who turned down a lower offer to stay in Miami and agreed to a two-year, $47 million deal Wednesday.
Adding the 30-year-old Rondo and 34-year-old Wade goes against management’s stated desire to get younger after the Bulls missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years. It also remains to be seen how they will fit in coach Fred Hoiberg’s more freewheeling offense.
Manu Ginobili has ended any doubt, as if there ever was any to begin with: The Argentinian star tweets that he is returning to the San Antonio Spurs on a one-year deal.
Ginobili previously posted a message on social media saying he had decided to play another season in the NBA. But he didn’t mention the Spurs, which led some to wonder if he would head to another team after spending the first 14 years of his career in San Antonio.
It was a highly unlikely scenario, and one that Ginobili clarified on Thursday.
He tweets: “Happy to tell you guys that I’ll be coming back to the Spurs for another season. (hash)backhome.”
Ginobili will turn 39 later this month.
The Charlotte Hornets have announced they’ve re-signed Nicolas Batum, acquired Marco Belinelli in a trade with the Sacramento Kings and signed free agents Roy Hibbert and Ramon Sessions.
The moves were announced Thursday.
Batum last week agreed to a five-year, $120 million contract – the largest ever given out to a Hornets player – to stay in Charlotte.
Belinelli was acquired in a draft night trade from the Sacramento Kings in exchange for the rights to guard Malachi Richardson from Syracuse, who was selected with the 22nd overall pick by the Hornets.
General manager Rich Cho says Belinelli “is a solid outside shooter and has proven he can score and create for others in a variety of ways.”
The Boston Celtics have scheduled a Friday morning news conference, at which they’re expected to announce the signing of Al Horford.
The team agreed to a deal with the former Atlanta Hawks big man on Saturday, hours after the start of free agency. The four-year deal is expected to pay him $113 million.
Horford confirmed the deal on Twitter, changing his profile and pictures to note his Celtics affiliation. The team hasn’t commented.
Horford becomes the biggest free agent ever signed by the NBA’s most-decorated franchise. But the Celtics’ plans to use him to attract an even bigger name fell through when Kevin Durant agreed to a deal with the Golden State Warriors, rejecting an overture from the Celtics and star recruiter Tom Brady.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -The agent for Brandon Rush says he has agreed to a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports says Rush came to agreement with the Timberwolves on Wednesday. He gives them some much-needed shooting off the bench.
Rush averaged 4.2 points in 72 games for the Golden State Warriors last season. He has overcome some serious knee issues to resume his career and has shot 40 percent from 3-point range in eight seasons.
The Timberwolves badly needed to add a shooter to a team that was near the bottom of the league in 3-point field goals and attempts last season.
Rush is the second signing of a quiet summer for the Timberwolves. They added center Cole Aldrich on Monday.
A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that the Rockets have agreed to terms with Nene (nuh-NAY’) on a one-year, $2.9 million deal.
The Mavericks have completed a trade with Golden State for center Andrew Bogut, and each team will get a future second-round draft pick in the deal.
The deal announced Thursday was reached earlier this week, not long after the Warriors got a commitment from Kevin Durant and needed to clear space under the salary cap to sign the four-time NBA scoring champion from Oklahoma City.
The 7-foot Bogut has averaged 10.3 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 644 games over an 11-year career. He made the NBA’s All-Defensive second team when the Warriors won their first title in 40 years in 2015.
Bogut was the first Australian taken No. 1 overall, in 2005 by Milwaukee.
Dallas also signed forward Harrison Barnes from the Warriors, who had to renounce the rights to the restricted free agent to clear cap room for Durant.
A person with knowledge of the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Dewayne Dedmon has agreed to terms on a two-year, $6 million contract with the San Antonio Spurs.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the move. Dedmon is a 26-year-old, 7-foot center who spent the last two-plus seasons in Orlando.
He gives the Spurs another rim protector and defensive presence off the bench. He also serves as some insurance should longtime franchise centerpiece Tim Duncan retire.
Dedmon has also played for Golden State and Philadelphia in his young career.
The Washington Wizards have signed center Ian Mahinmi, forward Andrew Nicholson and forward/center Jason Smith and acquired guard Trey Burke from the Utah Jazz in exchange for a 2021 second-round pick.
Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld announced the moves Thursday.
Mahinmi averaged career highs of 9.3 points, 7.1 rebounds, 1.5 assists and about 25 minutes in 71 games, all starts, for the Indiana Pacers last season.
Nicholson averaged 6.9 points and 3.6 rebounds last season with Orlando, while playing under 15 minutes per game. A first-round pick by the Magic four years ago, he has averaged 6.5 points and 3.2 rebounds in the NBA, with a total of 36 starts.
Smith has averaged 6.5 points and 3.5 rebounds while shooting .466 from the field in 489 career games (98 starts) over nine seasons with Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York and Orlando. Last season with the Magic, he averaged 7.2 points and 2.9 rebounds in 76 games.
Burke was the No. 9 overall choice in the 2013 NBA draft out of Michigan and has averaged 12.1 points and 4.2 assists in three seasons with Utah, mostly as a starter for the first two but only as a reserve last season.
