NBA Free Agency: Overpaid, Bargain Or Just About Right

May 17, 2015; Houston, TX, USA; Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (6) reacts after a play during the second quarter against the Houston Rockets in game seven of the second round of the NBA Playoffs at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports

We’re one week through NBA free agency and the money flying around is as crazy as you’d expect it to be. We graded 10 reported deals and labeled them as overpays, bargains or just about right deals

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Through roughly one week of NBA free agency, we’ve seen about 62 players signed to new contracts worth a total of about $2.3 billion — give a take a few players and a few million.

Money has been flying at crazy rates and we haven’t even seen the NBA salary cap blow up as it’s expected to over the course of the next two summers — $20 million next summer and close to another $20 million in the summer after that. In other words, you think this year’s free agency period has been crazy, just wait until the next couple of summers.

The money that we see exchanging hands now is nothing. Over the course of the next few offseasons, we’re going to see unprecedented numbers.

With that said, let’s not act like we’ve haven’t seen our fair share of insane contracts this summer. Here we breakdown who got overpaid, who was signed to a bargain and who got their market value in money so far this summer.

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