The Nuggets off-season goals were to (1) cut costs, and (2) try and keep as many free agents as possible, as cheaply as possible. 
 
First, they needed to dump one of the high salaries, just not Carmelo Anthony.  This left:
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Going into this off-season, no team in the NBA faced more potential for upheaval than the Wizards.  Two of their three best players, Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas, were unrestricted free agents who were highly sought after.  Indeed, these two players represented two of the best players available, if not the top two.    
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The Magic didn’t do much this off-season.  Last year they won 52 games, won their division by 9 games, made the 2nd round of the playoffs, and they have all of their most important players safely under contract for next year.  There just wasn’t much that needed done this off-season. 
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Ok so, Pat Riley has hung up the whistle one last time, again.  In his place he hired 13-year Heat employee Erik Spoelstra, who is interestingly the first NBA head coach with Filipino lineage.  I know what you’re thinking – Erik Spo….who? 
 
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Perhaps the biggest news in the Bobcats’ off-season was the hiring of 67-year-old Larry Brown as head coach.  This is just the type of project Brown relishes – a young team with a losing history that, with the proper leadership could turn the corner as soon as this year and actually compete for a playoff […]

All the Hawks needed to do this off-season, besides hire a new GM and maybe sign a couple cheap veterans to fill out the roster, was get restricted free agents Josh Smith and Josh Childress re-signed long-term.  And, since they were both restricted free agents, they only needed to:

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Talk about a team in need of a major overhaul – the Bucks went 26-56 last year, and that was with an expensive roster loaded with long-term contracts.  The Bucks had talent, but the pieces just didn’t fit together and as a result, the team played with zero passion or chemistry.  They were terrible defensively, […]

Although they missed the playoffs last year by only a single game, it was clear this team was on a downhill slide, and needed to make some changes in the off-season. 
 
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The Pistons did very little in the off-season.  But then again, when you make the conference finals for like the 56th year in a row, and your main players are all safely under contract for next year, there really isn’t all that much to do. 
 
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The Cavaliers’ off-season was all about one position – point guard.  Both of their main point guards from last year, Daniel Gibson and Delonte West, entered the off-season as restricted free agents.  The Cavs did their due diligence, quickly making long-term offers to both players, as well as offering the qualifying amount to West for […]