While the NBA offseason is still a couple months away, free agency actually started immediately after the Feb. 8 NBA trade deadline.
Spencer Dinwiddie was seen sitting behind the Dallas Mavericks' bench in New York, hours after being waived by the Toronto Raptors. The next night in Los Angeles, Dinwiddie was being courted by Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka. Dinwiddie would eventually sign a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Lakers.
Dinwiddie, who had been traded from the Brooklyn Nets, joined Kyle Lowry, Thaddeus Young, Danilo Gallinari and Delon Wright as players who were waived after the deadline and signed with a playoff contender: Lowry with his hometown Philadelphia 76ers, Young with the Phoenix Suns, Gallinari to the Milwaukee Bucks and Wright with the Miami Heat.