Let’s say the obvious thing first. When you spend two years trying to hype yourself up for the idea of an MVP coming back to his hometown and you wind up with Ryan Anderson as Plan B, that stinks. There’s no way of getting around that.
That said, there are going to be a lot of losers in free agency this summer. Everyone has money to spend, but that also makes it so most of the teams with valuable free agents have enough money to retain stars (Kevin Durant, LeBron James) young, restricted free agents (Andre Drummond, Harrison Barnes) and established players on good teams (Hassan Whiteside, Al Horford, Nicolas Batum, Chandler Parsons, DeMar DeRozan).