RUMOR: Some NBA players are already being offered contracts

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty ImagesThe draft still isn’t for another month, free agency still (presumably) isn’t until shortly after that, and the NBA and NBPA still haven’t even agreed to a cap figure for next season yet.

And yet, rumors are swirling from multiple plugged-in NBA people that, even without fully knowing how much money there will be to spend, some NBA teams are already coming to deals with free agents. From Brian Windhorst and Bobby Marks of ESPN, via NBA Sports:

Windhorst:

I have already heard of a deal that’s been agreed to. Who knows whether it’s true or not?

Marks:

I had one agent – because I was talking about his free agent and salary projections, right? And he…