NBA free agency is normally a feeding frenzy, but the Oklahoma City Thunder are near the bottom of the food chain this offseason. Money talks during the league’s "silly season," but OKC doesn’t have enough of it to make a big splash.
General manager Sam Presti has $78.3 million in salaries on the books for the 2015-16 season, a number that’s well over the projected cap of $67.1 million. The Thunder can re-sign their own free agents (Enes Kanter and Kyle Singler) using Bird rights—assuming ownership doesn’t mind paying the luxury tax for the second consecutive season—but they don’t have money to throw at big names on the “open” market.