It’s getting late in free agency. Three weeks into the NBA’s annual players bazaar, about half the teams have openings meaning half are full. In the case of the Nets, they have 13 fully guaranteed standard deals plus a non-guaranteed standard deal in Darius Bazley signed last week. They also have two players signed to two-ways so there’s one opening there.
What are GMs like Sean Marks waiting for? Lots of things, like who Oklahoma City, which has too many players, will cut; which of the final batch of free agents, likely vets minimum contracts all, are worth signing; what trade possibilities remain out there: and maybe more than anything else, what happens with the two superstars, Damian Lillard and James Harden, both of whom have asked out, Lillard out of Portland, Harden out of Philadelphia.