NBA: Winners and losers from day one of free agency
By Jacob Doole
NBA free agency started with a bang on Sunday, as over $200 billion was spent and several big names were on the move. Who are the early winners and losers?
NBA Christmas has arrived; free agency is here for another year. For me living in Australia, that means waking up to hundreds of Twitter notifications and spending an hour in bed, still half asleep, trying to make sense of what’s happened so far.
This year, those notifications were almost too much for my jumbled brain to handle, as we saw one of the wildest openings to free agency in recent memory. KD and Kyrie to the Nets? Jimmy Butler traded, but not ACTUALLY traded yet, to the Heat? The Sixers, already a big team in today’s NBA, adding Al Horford? The Hornets rebuilding on the fly with… Scary Terry? The Woj bombs just kept on detonating with no time to take shelter.
With more than $2 billion in total commitments, the NBA’s silly season got off to a flying start. Among all that spending, who has emerged as the offseason’s early winners, and who might be left with some buyers remorse in the coming years?