2012 NBA Free Agents: Deron Williams Highlights Weak Crop of Players
For teams looking to improve through free agency this offseason, well, they might not be in luck.
For one, Dwight Howard is off the board, and he seemed to have a pretty limited list of intended destinations in the first place.
But hey, Deron Williams will be available. And for a veteran team looking to add a point guard for another championship run or two, there's Steven Nash. And let's not forget about other veterans like Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.
And of course, there's always...um...jeez, is that really the cream of the unrestricted-free-agent crop this year?
Sadly, it is. It's going to be a pretty boring summer.
Now, there are some decent players with player or early termination options like Jameer Nelson, Gerald Wallace and Lou Williams, though none of those players will steal many headlines this summer.
And the restricted pool has quite a few promising talents, headlined by Eric Gordon and including Brook Lopez, Nicolas Batum, Roy Hibbert and JaVale McGee.
But more than likely, this offseason is going to be all about Deron Williams and the 2008 All-Stars at the top of the free-agency pool. Other than that, there isn't a whole lot of elite talent to be had.
Where Williams goes will be interesting, and Dallas has to be the front-runner at this point, with Orlando a distinct possibility as well. After that, Steve Nash will likely be the next to follow suit, as a nice consolation prize for a new team.
And then the storylines will surround whether or not Tim Duncan will retire and if Garnett and Allen will return to the Celtics. A team or two may make a run at a restricted free agent—somebody will surely overpay for a player like Lou Williams if he doesn't stick with the Sixers—and that will be it.
That's the level of excitement you can expect this summer, barring a blockbuster trade or two or a surprise at the draft to liven things up.
I'm already bored.
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