How the NBA Buyout Market Works -- And a Coach Picks Its Best Players

How the NBA Buyout Market Works -- And a Coach Picks Its Best Players

Every year in the wake of the NBA‘s trade deadline, a raft of players are set free by their new teams, or in some cases by their old teams. There’s almost always a mad race to identify which players could sign with which teams, and the, by the time the stretch run and playoffs come around, those moves are quickly forgotten. It’s the NBA buyout market.Players who are bought out, after all, are usually bought out because no one wanted to trade for…