Wizards Play the “Tortoise” and Let Others Play the “Hare”
July 1st, 2010 by CJ Hempfield Leave a reply »A few teams (Chicago, New York, New Jersey and Miami) decided to clear all of their available cap room in order to make a run at one or more of the most significant free agents in the 2010 class (which includes LeBron James, Dewayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Amar'e Stoudemire and Joe Johnson).
The Wizards to the dismay of some of its fans decided to take a decidedly different approach – avoid the big names and try to capitalize on those desperate to make moves to target the big names.
While this is clearly an extremely talented free agent class, one that has not been seen since 1996, a GM must not overreact. The management of a team has to realize that there are a number of forces at play that must be taken into account:
There are four teams with enough cap room to sign two or more max free agents – CHI, NY, NJ and MIA Teams with little (or no) available cap space, still want to improve their teams, have owners who are unafraid to spend money, and are willing (and possibly able) to use current assets to swing sign and trades for one of the power free agents – DAL, HOU and LAC The power free agents’ ...
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