The 2014 free agent class could include LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Dirk Nowitzki, Amare Stoudemire, Chris Bosh, Pau Gasol, Paul Pierce, Danny Granger, Luol Deng, Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph and Andrew Bogut among others.
Bryant, Nowitzki, Granger, Deng, Pierce, Gasol and Bogut will be unrestricted free agents that summer. James, Wade, Anthony, Stoudemire, Bosh, Gay and Randolph have a player option or early-termination option, which means they can opt-out and become unrestricted free agents.
Executives are already drooling over the 2014 free agent class. One Western Conference executive believes that the 2014 class could be better than the much-anticipated 2010 class.
The 2014 class, if everyone opts out, is much more accomplished," said the executive.
So many teams will try, so many will fail