The 2020 free agent class is definitely uninspiring overall, but will still shape the NBA over the next few seasons. Intriguingly, wings, typically scarce around the league, are the strongest part of this offseason even without a ton of star talent.
Since this series will split the upcoming free agent class into point guards, wings and big men, there will inevitably be some tough classification decisions. In some ways, the best way to describe wings is that they do not fit in either group as typically slower and taller than point guards but shorter and more agile than traditional big men. Rest assured, every potential free agent will be considered in one of the three pieces.
There are a lot of different ways to think about a free agent class but one of the most useful is to break it up by expected salary. That leads to natural categories: max players, non-max but above the $9.8 million Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level exception, Mid-Level exception candidates and a little on…
