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Five Catergories of NBA Teams: Which One Is Your Team In?

Senior Writer Written on July 22, 2008

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With a nucleus of Baron Davis, Chris Kaman, Al Thornton, and Eric Gordon, and the expiring contracts of Tim Thomas, Marcus Camby, and Cuttino Mobley, the Clippers have suddenly become the team best-equipped to add a huge free agent and compete for a championship immediately.

New Jersey, Minnesota, Memphis, Miami, Cleveland, and Toronto are the other teams that are in pretty good shape.

New Jersey has been the team most-rumored to be in play for LeBron because they have so many guys still playing on rookie contracts. Even after trading Marcus Williams to the Warriors, the Nets still have Brook Lopez, Sean Williams, Yi Jianlian, Ryan Anderson, Josh Boone, Chris Douglas-Roberts, and Maurice Ager on rookie contracts.

The Nets have also given reasonable contracts to Eduardo Najera and Keyon Dooling, and have the expiring contracts of Stromile Swfit in 2009 and Bobby Simmons and Trenton Hassell in 2010.

Miami will have a ton of cap space, but they only have three players under contract. Even with only $12 million committed to Michael Beasley, Daequan Cook, and Marcus Banks, the Heat will have about $50 million to spend—but they'll have to spend it on at least ten players.

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