BRIGGS wrote:This draft has an unsual amount of NBA guards that will fall into rd 2 and even well into undrafted territory. The preimum on picks will drive incessantly higher the next two years as salaries sky rocket.This is a teams chance to "pick" out talent that they feel can not only make the nBA but play well.
Free agency to me is going to be THE worst by far ever. Teams will NOT pass up the ability to sign their own for a 70% plus discount--I see very little movement past the low end guys.
Mining your own talent will become essential especially for a team like the Knicks.
While it is clear that the economics of your argument will push higher salaries toward lesser players, I make a counterpoint. Any UFAs that are 6th man plus and looking for a starting role will still be looking to switch teams on the 1&1 contract in order to make their splash and get a larger contract when the cap rises. Guys who think they can become a better feature in the offense. Whether I take $7M or $9M this year doesn't really matter if the team I join will give me more minutes and a starting job, a better role and/or I believe in the system. The existing team should do everything you say -- offer to trade them, overpay a bit, match offer sheets. But players will change teams. I'm not worried about that.
