The names on the NBA's buyout market are always bigger than their impact, and we tell ourselves every year this time will be different. Keep that in mind when a one-time MVP joins a contender in the near future.
Goran Dragic and DeAndre Jordan were last season's biggest buyout names. The former did not win a playoff game, and the latter played a total of 30 garbage minutes off the bench in two playoff losses. Jevon Carter, whom the Brooklyn Nets inexplicably waived after last season's trade deadline, was more impactful, and the Milwaukee Bucks probably should have played him more than the 11.