2018 NBA free agency tracker: Grades for every deal so far
Joe Harris: 2 years, $16 million (Brooklyn Nets)
Joe Harris has agreed to a two-year, $16M deal with Nets, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2018
Pound for pound, Joe Harris’ agreed-upon deal might have been the best value move in free agency’s opening flurry of activity. For a Brooklyn Nets team that attempted the second-most 3-pointers in the NBA last year but only made 35.6 percent of them (ranked 20th in the league), bringing back Harris’ 41.9 percent touch from long range is huge.
Still only 26 years old, Harris wasn’t the most indispensable of free agents, but this is a borderline bargain move considering what he might have been able to get on the open market, especially if this had been a regular offseason where money wasn’t so tight.
The Nets are slowly but surely assembling a collection of complementary talent, and having wings who can shoot is intrinsic to that vision. At a mere $8 million a year, they were able to lock in their most important free agent before any suitors could come calling.
Bourguet Grade: A-
Hoops Habit Grade: B+