The Los Angeles Lakers sent a warning across the league on Thursday night.
Big markets are back.
You heard me. A year after some of free agency's top stars like Greg Monroe chose to sign with the Milwaukee Bucks, the advantages long-held by the country's largest markets were declared dead.
Buried.
RIP.
Right? Wrong.
You say the Lakers can't get big names? Well I bet you felt pretty stupid when they signed literally one of the biggest players on the market, Timofey Mozgov, to a blockbuster four-year $64 million deal on the first night of free agency.