Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
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Fact or Fiction: The NBA's 2024 free-agency class was a dud
No team spent more on salary this past summer than the Philadelphia 76ers, who own the NBA's worst record through the season's first month — indirect evidence that the 2024 free-agency class was a bust.