Mythbusters: Top NBA free agents wanting to go to big markets

[PortCityProphet]

Here are the top 10 markets. What top level free agents through the years have chosen these teams? Shaq, Dwight, Dwill are the 1st to come to mind. Obviously Shaq being the biggest ever, but other than that who? The big free agents only want to go to big markets is a myth.

1-2 New York Knicks / Brooklyn Nets
3-4 Los Angeles Lakers / Los Angeles Clippers
5 Chicago Bulls
6 Toronto Raptors
7 Philadelphia 76ers
8 Dallas Mavericks
9 Golden State Warriors
10 Houston Rockets

Chicago has never signed anyone. Toronto? They got an old ass Dream but idk how they got him I'm not like some of yall.
So fill me in here and educate a youngin.

 

[BlackAchilles]

The whole "big market/small market" perception isn't really based in reality

nikkas think America is 6-10 major metros on the edge of a vast unsettled wilderness

 

[Brozay]

Alot of people have this perception that big names go to different teams through FA when it in fact isnt the case ...

Chciago has signed nobody? Ben Wallace, Boozer, Pau are bigger FA signings than any small market teams have ever been to get done

 

[Primetime21]

What are the top 5 free agent signings of the last 8-10 years?

I dont think its a myth. Maybe bigger markets is more appropriate. Just thinking off the top of my head here; Amare/Carmelo from Denver and Phoenix to NY, Boozer from Utah to Chicago, LeBron from Cleveland to Miami..

 

[dh86]

It's largely been media driven bile proven by the large number of times the lakers have been rejected the past 5 years

 

[dh86]

What are the top 5 free agent signings of the last 8-10 years?

I dont think its a myth. Maybe bigger markets is more appropriate. Just thinking off the top of my head here; Amare/Carmelo from Denver and Phoenix to NY, Boozer from Utah to Chicago, LeBron from Cleveland to Miami..

Boozer was $, Amare was years, Lebron was Wade

 

[Brozay]

Boozer was $, Amare was years, Lebron was Wade

Boozer and Amare could have EASILY gotten max offers from small markets, they choose big markets though

Did Bron/Wade team up in CLE?

 

[Primetime21]

Boozer was $, Amare was years, Lebron was Wade

so did they go to bigger markets or no?

 

[Brozay]

Like I said, it comes down to the perception that star players really ever change teams through FA - doesnt happen nearly as much as you think

and when it does, they dont go to fukking Utah

 

[dh86]

Boozer and Amare could have EASILY gotten max offers from small markets, they choose big markets though

Did Bron/Wade team up in CLE?

Utah declined to even offer Boozer the max (partially due to Millsap but still) and Phoenix didn't offer Amare max years because of his knee. Big market teams over paying for guys is kinda the antithesis of the players seek big market talking point don't you think?

 

[KnickstapeCity]

:philjacksonlol:Cool thread.











:mjplsknicks:

 

[Brozay]

Utah declined to even offer Boozer the max (partially due to Millsap but still) and Phoenix didn't offer Amare max years because of his knee. Big market teams over paying for guys is kinda the antithesis of the players seek big market talking point don't you think?

Both of them could have had smaller market teams lining up to pay the same contracts

I wouldnt even consider the Bulls signing of Boozer overpaying .. he wasnt the best, but that signing was essential for the Bulls to take a step into elite territory

 

[FTBS]

It's an outdated concept born in a time when money and exposure weren't equal.

 

[SchoolboyC]

Alot of people have this perception that big names go to different teams through FA when it in fact isnt the case ...

Chciago has signed nobody? Ben Wallace, Boozer, Pau are bigger FA signings than any small market teams have ever been to get done

Spurs signing Aldridge
Heat signing LeBron & Bosh
Suns signing Nash
Magic signing Hill & T-Mac

That's off top. Big market advantage is exaggerated but it does exist.

 

[Brozay]

Spurs signing Aldridge
Heat signing LeBron & Bosh
Suns signing Nash
Magic signing Hill & T-Mac

Heat considered big market in the NBA 100% ... Nash wasnt Nash yet when he went to PHX ... Spurs are a special case, obviously

Magic getting Hill & Tmac though ... yet still, FL is a desired destination