Now that NBA free agency has come and gone, The Crossover has some time to reflect on the all of the July storylines, including the moves that didn't receive the proper attention at the time. With that in mind, we take a look at the most overlooked happenings of the summer.
Maybe this is just a function of how quickly the market is moving, but no interested team wasted time by actually signing a restricted free agent to an offer sheet. Instead, we saw at least three cases of restricted free agency resolved via sign-and-trade. Milwaukee helped Malcolm Brogdon to Indiana in exchange for a first-round pick and two second-round picks; in sending Tomas Satoransky to Chicago, Washington acquired a future second-round pick, swap rights on another future second rounder, and modified the protection of a previously traded pick; and most recently, Portland signed-and-traded Jake Layman to Minnesota as an apparent favor, creating a $1.