July 2nd 2025 at 11:39am CST by Dana Gauruder
Vlatko Cancar is expected to leave the Nuggets and head to Europe next season, Donatas Urbonas of Basketnews.com reports. Italy’s Emporio Armani Milan has emerged as the leading candidate to sign Cancar, Urbonas adds.
Cancar has spent the past five seasons with Denver. He only appeared in 13 games this past season, averaging 1.8 points and 2.5 rebounds in 11 minutes. Cancar is an unrestricted free agent after playing on a one-year veteran’s minimum deal.
Here’s more news on the free agent front:
Nikola Jokic lamented the Nuggets’ lack of depth after the team was eliminated by the Thunder in the playoffs. That issue has been addressed, the Denver Post’s Bennett Durando notes (subscription required). Denver agreed to trade Michael Porter Jr. and replace him with Cameron Johnson from the Nets, made another agreed-upon trade for big man Jonas Valanciunas, and reached agreements with Tim Hardaway Jr. and Bruce Brown in free agency.
Despite the Indianopolis Star’s claim they went higher, both The Athletic and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line contend that the Pacers’ best offer to Myles Turner was in $20-22MM per year range. Turner agreed to a four-year, $107MM contract with Central Division rival Milwaukee on Tuesday. According to Spencer Davies of RG.org, Turner would have stayed in Indiana for $25MM per year, but the organization held firm, offering a three-year, $66MM contract. No player option was offered for a fourth year.
The Athletic’s John Hollinger notes that the league ‘middle class,’ solid rotation players but not superstars, are doing surprisingly well in free agency. He points out that eight such players have received some or all of a team’s non-taxpayer midlevel exception.
Factoring in all the reported moves prior to Wednesday, Spotrac contributor Keith Smith examines the remaining spending power of all the Eastern Conference and Western Conference teams.