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TheGoldenBoy on 23 February 2016
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hershel_layton said:
TheGoldenBoy said:

People are trying to hype up this year's free agency because of the rise in salary cap this summer. However, I honestly think that most of the free agents will resign with their current teams. Durant will resign with the Thunder, DeRozan will resign with the Raptors and so on. The biggest name that will move will probably be Dwight and he's, at best, a second option on a contender; more likely a third option. Next year's free agency will be much more interesting in my opinion, especially if Durant has faith in his health and takes a one year deal.

I do agree though that Durant won't go to a team under .500 unless Westbrook is going with him. Any team with Durant and Westbrook is an automatic contender. So as long as a team has a solid supporting cast and the necessary cap space, they have chance.

What teams have the best supporting cast? We won't include the Warriors for obvious reasons(their entire team is elite), with the Cavs and Spurs excluded as well. We know KD and westbrook will most likely not go there(unless KD is fancying a KD+LeBron fantasy team).

In the current NBA there's only 4 teams with great supporting casts: Warriors, Cavs, Spurs, and the Clippers. Excluding those the Celtics and the Heat are the two most obvious teams because they have great executives. Durant and Westbrook could probably trust Riley or Ainge to build a great team around them because they've done it before. Plus they're also in the East, where the only obstacleto the Finals is Lebron. The 76ers have a lot of assets and young talent and if they can turn those into solid players by the 2017 NBA free agency, they might have chance. The Lakers have good young core in Russell-Clarkson-Randle-Nance and maybe Simmons or Ingram after this year's draft. The Knicks have improved a lot and there's no reason to believe that they won't improve again this offseason. That's pretty much all I can think of off the top of my head. Of course this is assuming they want to leave OKC, which I'm not sure they do.