Time is moving swiftly in the NBA these days. In a little more than a week, we've crowned a champion, drafted a new crop of rookies and on Sunday, we'll have a fresh group of free agents hitting the marketplace. That's the residual of last fall's nightmarish lockout but thankfully, once we hit July 1, we're officially into the 2012-13 season and back on a normal calendar. Whew.
Let's take a look at these free agents-to-be. I've ranked them according to the estimated 2012-13 PER. My method was simply to average the past three years and apply a basic aging adjustment. That latter part was important because too often, teams pay for what a player has done as opposed to what he's going to do. Of course, the younger a player is, the less likely it is that he'll change teams, thanks to the vagaries of restricted free agency. Alas.
In each instance, I've indicated whether a player is a restricted (RFA) or an unrestricted free agent (UFA).