It seems as if a lot of teams went overboard resigning their own guys. Other than the fact that many of them are younger guys with some room to maybe develop further, I'm so far not seeing the judiciousness and thriftiness that the new CBA was supposed to impart.
Seriously, who did some of these teams think they were bidding against?
In a year where hardly anyone had cap space you've got Portland giving Grant a contract no one else would have pondered for a moment. Coby White was the 8th man on a BAD Bulls team and he was not good in the role... 40 million, and he was restricted! They were worried someone would offer him more?
Draymond's contract is wild too. With their luxury tax bill, it is going to cost them hundreds of millions. I get that you want to reward a guy who was a key cog in 4 titles but... jeeeez. His decline has been precipitous already, in another year or 2 he might be unplayable.
And Kyrie... absolutely no one was going to offer Kyrie that kind of money or years. He's insane, he's a cancer and the only teams who might have been willing to roll the dice on him had no cap space to do so. They apparently believed that him signing elsewhere for the minimum wasn't a bluff... either that or they decided it was better to overpay him and keep him "happy" than to make him settle for less than he wants. But it won't matter... he's a cancer, he will ruin that situation at the first bump in the road.
I still gotta give the title to Portland and that Grant contract. He chucks shots, plays no D, doesn't rebound, can't pass. A near max deal for a dude with zero accolades and hasn't impacted the winning percentage anywhere he has been in the NBA. They are desperate to build a contender around Lillard and they are still making the same mistakes, putting wildly overpaid, mediocre players around him. Dudes they won't be able to give away in a trade.
