5 NBA Free Agents Who Are Sure to Disappoint

The NBA free-agent season is now in full swing and a number of players have either directly, or through sign and trades, inked with their new teams. 

Some of these free agents will impress with their new teams. For instance, Steve Nash coupled with Kobe Bryant certainly makes the Los Angeles Lakers contenders right out of the gate. 

On the other hand, some free agents are destined to disappoint their new teams, regardless of how pumped their local fanbases may be. 

I'm sticking with free agents in new digs because with existing ones, you sort of know what you're going to get. 

Ray Allen

Ray Allen might be the greatest three-point shooter in NBA history. Yet, I don't understand this signing for the life of me. It makes no sense. The reason he's on this list has more to do with his position and where he is going than it does about him. 

Next year the big three will command about $52 million in salary. Three of next five highest-paid players are their backups. 

Meanwhile the Heat have a marginal (at best) point guard in Mario Chalmers and perhaps the worst starting center situation in the entire NBA. It's almost like they are willfully defying the basketball gods by refusing to sign a credible center. 

Yes, they won the title last year. They got a little lucky in that none of their opponents after the first round were great inside. 

Goran Dragic

I like Goran Dragic as a backup, I'm not sold on him as a starter, especially on a team that is as depleted in real NBA talent as the Suns. 

Marcin Gortat is a nice player, but how many of his scoring opportunities were created by Nash and how many will be available next year?

Dragic did nicely filling in as a starter on a pretty well-assembled team, but he doesn't have the same ability to make those around him better that Nash had. 

Dragic will put together some solid but not great overall numbers, but he won't be the next Steve Nash and the Suns project to be one of the worst teams in the NBA next year. 

Roy Hibbert

Provided that Hibbert is not matched and goes to Portland, he'll be a fairly, though not tremendously, disappointing player there. 

In Indiana there weren't any great big men who played inside alongside him. Sure, there were players like David West last year, who is a solid power forward, but West doesn't play big. He is more of a pick-and-pop type player. He doesn't play inside. 

LaMarcus Aldridge does, though. I see Hibbert's numbers coming down, and perhaps Aldrdige's as well. He'll be adequate, but not for the amount of money he'll be making. 

Furthermore, when he plays the Lakers he'll get owned by Andrew Bynum. 

Hibbert won't be the most disappointing new free agent, but he won't earn his paycheck either. 

Michael Beasley

Michael Beasley is a typical player who puts the "self" in selfish. 

There are some who would like to place the blame on Minnesota and argue that he didn't get a fair shake there. Of course he didn't get a "fair shake" in Miami either. 

Beasley, somewhat inefficiently, takes a lot of shots and does little else. His PER was a below-average 13.0 last year, which was a step backwards. 

He's a failed experiment who will never live up to his draft position. 

The Suns are losing the most selfless player in the game and getting arguably one of the most selfish. 

Nick Young

If you want to make Michael Beasley look less selfish, put him on a team with Nick Young. 

Putting things in perspective ,Young was such a selfish player that he stood out for his selfishness on a team that may be the most selfish in NBA history. 

It was so bad the team was disbanded and the coach fired midseason. Young wasn't a victim here, he was a ringleader.