Free agency starts Friday. It's a crappy market, overall.
The Rockets are reportedly linked to nearly every free agent. Or more likely, every player agent is using them to bump their client's value. But they also have a ton of money to spend. I'm sure they will disburse it wisely.
The new CBA penalizes you for not hitting the salary floor. First, the money below the floor gets distributed back to the NBAPA and not to guys on your own team. Secondly you don't get a distribution of the luxury tax payments. This year it's only a 50% penalty, but next year you get zilch. So essentially every cheap bastard team will find their way to the floor before the season starts either by trade or free agent signing.
The Lakers are publicly claiming they will match any offer for Austin Reaves. If you are so insistent, just go ahead and max him for $102 million over four years yourself. I double dog dare you.
There's a lot of Draymond chatter, but I can't imagine him leaving the Warriors especially with Poole gone and his contract off the books.
Teams with money to spend:
That's a lot of teams with money to burn in a bad free agent class and several teams below the floor that won't stay there. It's also a lot of teams that are in win-now mode who don't own their draft picks. We're going to see some awful, head scratching contracts over the weekend.