The 2021 buyout market set off one of the more needless controversies in recent NBA history. Blake Griffin, Andre Drummond and LaMarcus Aldridge moving from their small-market homes to the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers caused an enormous uproar about class disparity in professional basketball. Why should the best teams have access to former All-Stars at bargain-basement prices just because their original teams want to save a few bucks?
That’s a complicated question that fortunately has a simple answer: Buyout reform isn’t necessary because 2021 was an outlier. A few helpful role players usually hit the market after the deadline, but they’re almost never as accomplished as Griffin, Drummond and Aldridge. There was genuine fear that Griffin forcing his way out of Detroit with multiple years left on his deal would ignite a firestorm of unhappy veterans doing the same, yet the only analogous player in 2022…
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