Payton, who spent the past two seasons with the Golden State Warriors, is expected to join the Blazers on a three-year, $28 million deal, sources told ESPN's Marc J. Spears. The Warriors offered Payton the taxpayer mid-level exception, sources told Spears.

Just as Payton has ties to the Bay Area -- with his father, Hall of Fame guard Gary Payton, being born in Oakland -- he also has a connection to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. He grew up in Seattle while his father played for the Seattle Supersonics. Payton also attended and played at Oregon State for two years.

After bouncing around the league since his rookie season in 2016-17, Payton finally found a fit in Golden State that allowed his game to flourish.

Viewed as a point guard when he came out of college, Payton was used more as a forward, and sometimes even a center, with the Warriors as he spent most of his time in the dunker spot.

Payton's primary role was as a lockdown defender, posting a defensive rating of 100 -- good for 40th in the league and sixth-best amongst players who played around the same minute load.

He was successful in matchups against some of the league's best big men, such as MVP Nikola Jokic, and the fact that he added a little more shooting to his offensive arsenal (35.8% from 3 on 1.7 attempts per game) made him a more well-rounded player.

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Agents: New York Knicks, Jalen Brunson agree to 4-year, $104M deal

Free-agent guard Jalen Brunson has agreed to a four-year, $104 million deal with the New York Knicks, his agents Aaron Mintz and Sam Rose of CAA Basketball told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Thursday.

The deal includes a player option on the final season.

Brunson's representatives contacted the Dallas Mavericks, his former team, on Thursday afternoon to inform them of the guard's intentions to sign with the Knicks, sources said. A planned meeting was called off after the conversation.

Brunson's departure from Dallas to New York has been widely anticipated for days, as the Knicks made a more lucrative offer for him to play a larger role for a franchise with which he has deep family ties, including the recent addition of his father, Rick Brunson, as an assistant coach.

Knicks president Leon Rose, who made a series of trades since draft night to create enough cap space to sign Brunson, is a prominent former player agent whose first client was Rick Brunson. He also represented Jalen Brunson at the beginning of his career. Rick Brunson's recent hiring reunited him with Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, for whom he also served as an assistant with the Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Brunson, 25, who is coming off a breakout season in which he averaged 16.3 points and 4.8 assists per game, intends to help revitalize a New York franchise that has not won a playoff series in the past nine seasons. New York's only postseason appearance and winning campaign during that span was in 2020-21, Thibodeau's first season as the Knicks' head coach, when they went 41-31 before losing as the No. 4 seed to the Atlanta Hawks in the first round.

Brunson established himself as Dallas' No. 2 option behind All-NBA guard Luka Doncic, his 2018 draft classmate, after joining the starting lineup on a full-time basis in December. Brunson helped lead the Mavericks to the Western Conference finals for the first time in 11 years, averaging 21.6 points per game during the playoffs. He exploded for 41- and 31-point performances in first-round victories over the Utah Jazz while Doncic was sidelined by a strained calf, a strong indication Brunson could thrive as a team's primary playmaker.

"It's a great fit [in Dallas], but at the end of the day, my son is no different than the next man," Rick Brunson told ESPN during that first-round series. "You try to raise them the right way in terms of understanding the game, but everyone wants what Luka has. I don't care who you are. Everyone wants that feeling of, 'Hey, I can do this too.' I don't always think the grass is greener on the other side, but we'll sit down this summer and go through all the pros and cons of staying here or going somewhere else."