The Detroit Pistons plan to re-sign wing Kevin Huerter to a three-year, $27 million contract, multiple outlets reported on the first day of the NBA’s free agent period.
Free agency opened Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET, at which time teams were free to negotiate with players other than their own.
The Pistons acquired Huerter, 27, at the trade deadline from the Chicago Bulls in a deal that also involved the Minnesota Timberwolves. Through the complex maneuvering, the Pistons also gained a first-round draft pick used to select guard Ebuka Okorie, who was Stanford’s leading scorer as a freshman in his only season there.
Huerter was acquired to help the Pistons score from long range. Huerter has career figures of 36.8% shooting from 3-point range and 11.4 points per game. After the trade, he failed to find his role with the Pistons immediately and also sustained multiple injuries that caused him to miss games. He found a groove in the final 11 games he played and averaged 11.5 points and 38.2% on 3-pointers in that span.
In other transactions Tuesday:
–Luke Kennard, a career 44.2% shooter from distance, agreed to a two-year deal worth $13 million with the Phoenix Suns, ESPN reported.
Kennard, 30, has led the league in 3-point shooting three different seasons, including 2025-26. After beginning the season with Atlanta, Kennard was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers on Feb. 5. He shot 44.8% from long range in 32 regular-season games with the Lakers, averaging 9.0 points.
In 10 playoff games last season, the No. 12 overall pick of the 2017 draft averaged 11.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists.
–The Brooklyn Nets are adding guard Keon Ellis on a two-year, $18 million deal, multiple outlets reported.
Undrafted out of Alabama in 2022, Ellis signed with Sacramento and played there the first three-plus seasons of his career. He was traded to Cleveland on Feb. 1 of last season, part of a three-team trade that also involved Chicago.
In 72 games between Sacramento and Cleveland, Ellis put up 6.7 points per game. The 26-year-old has averaged 6.6 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 225 career games with 60 starts.
–ESPN reported that veteran big man Zach Collins is staying in Chicago, agreeing to a two-year, $17 million contract with the Bulls.
After playing three seasons in Portland, the 10th pick in 2017 played for San Antonio for three-plus seasons, getting traded to Chicago in February 2025. He has averaged 8.0 points and 4.9 rebounds in 388 career games, making 83 starts.
Collins played in only 10 games last season after suffering a wrist fracture in camp and then spraining a toe three weeks after his return in December. He put up 9.7 points and 5.6 rebounds in that short span.
–The Atlanta Hawks acquired guard Devin Carter and a 2033 second-round draft pick from the Sacramento Kings, receiving the draft rights to Alpha Kaba — the 60th overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft.
The Kings selected Carter with the 13th overall pick of the 2024 NBA Draft, and he appeared in 38 games (12 starts) in the 2025-26 season. He averaged 8.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 18.4 minutes per game. Carter, 24, became expendable, however, when the Kings took guards Darius Acuff Jr. and Emanuel Sharp in the draft last week. Acuff was the No. 7 overall pick.
Kaba was the No. 60 overall pick in 2017 and has not played in the NBA. Now 30, he plays for the Shenzhen Leopards in the Chinese Basketball Association and for the national team of Guinea.
–Free agent small forward Simone Fontecchio plans to sign a one-year contract to return to the Miami Heat, ESPN reported.
Fontecchio, 30, averaged 8.5 points and 3.0 rebounds in 70 games (nine starts) last season with Miami. The Italian also shot 37.5% shooting from 3-point range.
He has averaged 7.8 points and 2.9 rebounds in 263 career games (58 starts) with the Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons and Heat.
–Forward Ousmane Dieng, acquired by the Bucks in a February trade, will remain in Milwaukee after agreeing to a three-year, $17.5 million contract, ESPN reported.
Dieng, 23, averaged 11 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 30 games (20 starts) for the Bucks last season. He opened the campaign as a little-used reserve for Oklahoma City.
Dieng was a bit-part player on the Thunder’s 2024-25 championship team. Selected 11th overall by Oklahoma City in the 2022 draft out of France, Dieng has career averages of 5.4 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 166 NBA games (22 starts).
–After seven seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, forward Dean Wade is leaving to join the Philadelphia 76ers, according to ESPN.
Per the report, the 76ers emerged from a group of contenders to land Wade with a four-year, $39 million contract.
The 29-year-old Wade, who signed with the Cavs as an undrafted free agent in 2019, averaged 5.8 points last season, the fifth time in six seasons he averaged between 5.3 and 6.0 points. His 38 starts and 22.3 minters per game last season were career highs. The career 36.7% shooter from distance has averaged 5.3 points and 3.6 rebounds over 342 career games (160 starts).
–Bogdan Bogdanovic is joining the Houston Rockets on a one-year deal, ESPN reported late Tuesday night. Financial terms were not reported.
Entering his 10th season, the No. 27 overall pick in 2014 should give the Rockets an outside shooter with playoff experience as the team looks to advance further into the postseason. He is a career 38.1% shooter from deep and an 84.5% free-throw shooter.
The 33-year-old is coming off his first season scoring fewer than 10 points a game, however, averaging 7.4 in 23 games with the Los Angeles Clippers. He is a 14.0-point-per-game scorer in his career, spending his first three seasons with Sacramento before spending four-plus seasons with Atlanta. He was traded to the Clippers in February 2025.
