While the free-agents of the 2016 offseason benefitted from a ‘cap boom’, where role-players like Evan Turner and Loul Deng walked away with contracts worth over $70 million, the free-agent class of 2018 have suffered from the opposite circumstances.
Teams across the league are too close to the cap to afford offering large contracts to non-star players; this leaves guys like Marcus Smart underpaid. The Bulls, Mavericks, Pacers, and Suns, teams that were rumored to be suitors for Smart’s talents, simply don’t posses the resources anymore to obtain him.
So what will Smart fetch on the open market?