what players have left their team to sign max offers (or near max) in FA in the last 20 years?

nomoreshaq · Star Player Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 5142

for the lakers i would count shaq as coming to us but not count malone, gp or nash as they were past their peak and it wasn't a max offer.

only other players i can think of are lebron (to miami) and then to cleveland and bosh to miami and arguable aldridge to SAS.

i guess there is also steve nash to phx, grant hill to ORL and tracy mcgrady to ORL as well. rashard lewis to ORL.

anyone know any more?

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Dwight to Houston

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LEBRON JAMES & CHRIS BOSH
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Gilbert Arenas

If you mention Shaq then you gotta add Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutomobo (and Juwan Howard for like 1 week)
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oldschool32 · Franchise Player Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 20032

I take it this includes sign and trades, since Lebron and Bosh were both sign and trades iirc? Didn't Miami give up a couple of first rounders?
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miamichico305 · Star Player Joined: 25 May 2015 Posts: 2077

Howard, he didn't want to be with the Lakers.. he even said Lakers were not in his top 3 preferred destination. Nets, Houston, Dallas. The fact the Lakers gave Kobe an extension was the icing on the cake for him.

Lebron & Bosh went ring chasing, Wade is the reason Lebron went to Miami...

Times have changed now days 'superstars' make more money off the court than they do on..

I can definitely see Durant leaving this summer, same with Derozan.

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activeverb · Retired Number Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 37470

Including guys who did sign and trades after it was clear they were leaving as free agents:

Lebron
Chris Bosh
Chandler Parsons
Lamar Odom
Gilbert Arenas
Shaq
LaMarcus Aldridge

come to mind

CandyCanes · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 4:14 am Post subject:

Wesley Matthews to Dallas.

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LVLAKERFAN · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 8:06 am Post subject:

Dwight, LMA, Deandre Jordan (with the Mavs, but he Changed his mind), Goran Dragic, Greg Monroe, Demare Carroll,

We'll almost maxes on all of them.
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Quite a lot actually.
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loseyourname · Star Player Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 1531

20 years? It's hard to remember all of them without looking them up. Aside from the guys already mentioned, I remember:

Antonio McDyess to Denver Nuggets
Amare Stoudemire to NY Knicks
Joe Johnson to Atlanta Hawks
Larry Hughes to Cleveland Cavs
Kenyon Martin to Denver Nuggets (S&T)
Chris Webber to Washington Bullets (S&T)
Vlade Divac to Sacramento Kings (don't think this was actually max at the time, but close, $10 mil+ per year more than a decade ago)

pmacla · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:10 am Post subject:

max free agents that led to a Title based on those listed is LeBron and Shaq

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Carlos Boozer

numero-ocho · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:17 am Post subject:

Really shouldn't be looking at the last 20 years. Should only be looking at how many FAs have left their teams since the CBA was revised to give home teams an advantage with the 5-year contracts vs 4-year contracts.
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jjangx27 · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:20 am Post subject:

so the lesson is: more than you think

KobeDunk · Retired Number Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 26849

but for the most case they all left to go to better situations not a 17 win team.

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