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Looking At The Best And Worst Deals Of NBA Free Agency

Chip Murphy
ESNY

NBA free agency has cooled off. It’s time to analyze the best and the worst deals during this summer of extraordinary spending.

The capacity for extraordinary spending in NBA free agency this summer somewhat altered the definition of what made a good deal and what made a bad one.

Last season’s $70 million salary cap jumped to $94 million, a record $24 million increase that made any semblance of normalcy disappear. Everybody had cap room, and they all wanted to use it. Some teams used the new circumstances to their advantage and others lost their minds.

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More emphasis was placed on the percentage of the cap that the contract takes up than the actual contract itself. It wasn’t easy to determine what was one of the ‘best’ contracts and what was one of the ‘worst’, but we tried.

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Chip Murphy
Chip Murphy

I'm ESNY's Executive Editor for EliteSportsNY.com.
I cover the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets.
Email: chip.murphy@elitesportsny.com

Chip Murphy covers the NBA for Elite Sports NY. You can find him on Twitter @ChipperMurphy.