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Six best deals of NBA free agency

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One of the primary goals for NBA teams in free agency is to sign players whose true value is higher than their price in the marketplace, allowing the team to win, sign additional players and avoid paying luxury taxes.

Using a metric that estimates each player's impact on winning and losing, real plus-minus, we can quantify how much each team paid for that impact.