The 2018 free agency market was a far cry from what it was in 2016 when the league had more than a billion dollars in cap space to spend. This year, only a handful of teams had a meaningful amount of money to sign players, and many of them used to either sign big free agents like LeBron James and DeAndre Jordan or take on bad money in exchange for future draft picks.
With so many players available and so few teams with the money to offer market value contracts, there were a plethora of free agents left out in the cold.