The summer’s free agent market will not be as crazy as last year’s, when LeBron James left Miami for Cleveland, or next year’s, when Kevin Durant and his agent, Jay-Z, will decide where he will continue his career.
In fact, this summer’s market could be a relative dud given the incentive teams now have to match any reasonable offer their restricted free agents receive. And with the influx of new TV money coming into the NBA, “reasonable” is a relative term.
But there are a number of attractive unrestricted free agents and players with opt-outs to make for a fairly interesting summer — and one of the most interesting things will be who the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers can have a legitimate shot at acquiring.
With that in mind, I discussed the free agent market, especially Memphis center Marc Gasol, on ESPN Radio 92.9 in Memphis this morning with host Geoff Calkins.