Gully State
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I refuse to believe a team is going to throw big money at him.
And why would he leave? He's luckiest mediocre role player in the world.
Here's what's going to happen...There are going to be a ton of teams with free cap space and not as many FA's well deserving of that money. Teams that have a ton of cap space but strike out on their number 1 FA will then look to sign someone like Barnes who is still young and has potential. B/c there are many teams thinking the same say, his value will be driven up just because every team has cap space and he's a player with an upside still.
Also don't forget that losing franchises generally have to overpay to get equivalent talent.
See Warriors through mid 90's-> most of the 00's...
Example off the top of my head- the year we lost Baron Davis, FO then turned around and offered a ridiculous contract to Arenas (thankfully Wizards matched) but then we turned around and threw that money at Corey Maggette simply because he averaged something like 7 FT's a game to go along with his scoring (and offered nothing else).