For the Mavs, their best free agent signing 100% that people aren't realizing, was DeAndre Jordan back in summer 2018. They ended up flipping DJ in a trade package for Kristaps Porzingis. Then, they flipped KP for Dinwiddie and made it to the 2022 WCF. Then they traded Spence in a package for Kyrie Irving a year later and made it to the finals with Ky in 2024. A huge path/domino effect that started with DJ lmao.
Matt, Grizzlies has to be Tony Allen over Tyus Jones. Signed in 2010 off-season. Was one of the Core Four through the early 2010s Grit and Grind playoff runs and really epitomized the play style of those teams. One of the best perimeter defenders in the league (Kobe said Allen was his toughest matchup). He's an absolute legend in Grizz history, Jones is not. Not that it matters for this list, but off the court, he's still living in Memphis and part of the community. On the Chris Vernon Show every Tuesday, too!
Low key it would have been really funny to have your thumbnail be 3 split pics of Lebron being signed to the Heat, Cavs and Lakers. Love the vids buddy.
as a pacers fan, i think the siakam signing is better than the brogdon one. being able to trade him for nesmith down the line was awesome but when it comes to pure talent, siakam’s our best signing
I agree with lebron to Miami but if we’re talking pure signing Jimmy gets love 2 finals and yes it was a loss but in terms of pure free agency he takes the cake
As a Magic fan, I agree there’s really no good signings. DJ was prob my favorite in the past decade. N we got guys to come to Orlando like Jeff Green n Brandon Jennings who I was wishing to be a Magic but didn’t work out cuz the coaching was not it.
Am I trippin or didn’t OKC re-sign PG and then traded him later on? Which in that trade we got a load of draft picks & SGA. We all know how good of a trade that was… so couldn’t you technically argue that PG was the best signing?
Oh to reflect now on that JB contract. I was there on draft night when the Knicks cleared cap for JB to I believe lock them into mediocrity according to a certain SROS😂 bet you’ve never been so happy to be so wrong. What a signing
Brunson is such a BARGAIN contract when I first seen what he got the best players in the league are gonna be getting paid 60 million a year in the next 5-6 years😭 the knicks can’t mess up with the window that they got. To at least make the finals idk about winning
Mavs fan. Hoping the answer is Klay Thompson. But for actual results, I’d say Derrick Jones. Chandler Parsons signing was a joke. Dude was injury prone and always hurt himself just before playoffs every year. I was super glad the Grizzlies took him off our hands (in what is quite possibly the WORST free agent signing of all time)
NO NO, Pacers best signing is BY FAR, Pascal, we didn’t extend him we waited for him to become a free agent and sign him. Brogdon got us Nesmith which I’ll always love him for, but we are a small market, Pascal is the only answer