Way-Too-Soon Overreaction to Megadeals of 2016 NBA Free Agency

November 8th, 2016 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »

Welcome to the NBA's Overreaction City. Population: You.

Gleaning profound conclusions from small samples is an art nowadays. We're about to grab a brush and paint last summer's biggest free-agent deals with overstated takeaways.

Focus lies with those who joined new teams over the offseason, because it's easier to spot changes, both good and bad, when players are in new digs. Our scope will be further limited by free agents who negotiated themselves one of this year's top-50 salaries in their new deal.

While this is a tongue-in-cheek exercise, it is not without merit. These exaggerations are rooted in truths and areas of actual concern.

For example (and spoiler alert): When we say the Golden State Warriors made a mistake by letting Harrison Barnes go instead of trading Klay Thompson into the Philadelphia 76ers' cap space, we're merely nodding to the former's onset success with the Dallas Mavericks.

Get it? Good. Let's hyperbolize.

       

Ryan Anderson, Houston Rockets

Contract: Four years, $80 million

First Impression: James Harde ...

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