NBA teams decided to hand out a large sum of money on the first day of the 2016 free-agency period, and the spending shouldn't slow down at any point in the near future. Plenty of the players populating our top 100 Big Board are still listening to their suitors' overtures.
If you were shocked by some of the price tags, fear not. You weren't alone.
After all, the NBA spent $1.71 billion Friday.
The rising salary cap has forced us to reframe our expectations, but it's still easy to get sticker shock when Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical reports that Timofey Mozgov has signed a four-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers for $64 million. Even Jerryd Bayless is getting three years and $27 million from the Philadelphia 76ers, per Jon Krawczynski of the Associated Press.
This seems like an enormous amount of money. Even the most aggressive Monopoly players aren't so free with their cash, though the rationale is easier to understand when you think about these deals as percentages of the new cap rather than numbers in a vacuum.
But the big money wasn't the true theme of the day. N ...
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2016 NBA Free Agency: Everything You Need to Know from Day 1
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