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Portland Trail Blazers guard Norman Powell told Yahoo Sports that he will decline his player option for the 2021-22 season and become an unrestricted free agent Aug. 1. The player option is worth $11.6 million and he is expected to receive a considerable raise and a multi-year deal this summer.

– via Chris Haynes @ Yahoo! Sports

 
And while the appeal of keeping one’s kids in the same location plays a factor in many NBA parents’ career planning, league sources told B/R it was Vaughn’s negotiations with Griffin that derailed the Nets coach from joining the Pelicans.

In those talks, which included a dinner in Chicago, Griffin previewed the same level of influence he has utilized throughout the executive’s tenure in New Orleans, where members of Van Gundy’s coaching staff and Alvin Gentry’s before his often mentioned Griffin’s preferred involvement in areas such as minutes, rotations and skill development, primarily for the players he has drafted since 2019. With Vaughn, sources said, Griffin had specific ideas to fill out the coach’s entire assistant group, envisioning Bucks assistant Charles Lee as the associate head coach, plus a starting backcourt of Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Kira Lewis.

 
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