The Boston Celtics (and 3 other teams) are having a bad start to free agency

The LA Clippers are having a bad free agency

The LA Clippers have found absolutely no traction whatsoever in free agency so far, and they’ve already lost contributors. Not only have they lost them, but to some of their biggest Western Conference rivals.

On Friday night, the Clippers found out at the same time as the rest of us that Sixth Man of the Year Montrezl Harrell had signed with the Los Angeles Lakers. Then later that night, the Clippers lost JaMychal Green to the Denver Nuggets, who had just lost Jerami Grant to the Detroit Pistons.

Both players signed elsewhere with these rivals for completely reasonable contracts and strengthened their depth at a time when the Clippers need to start stringing together a championship run.

Like the Celtics, the Clippers haven’t done anything on the talent acquisition side of things, but it’s still early and there’s time to turn things around.

The Charlotte Hornets are having the worst free agency

The Charlotte Hornets have had the worst free agency so far, but they wouldn’t believe it if you told them. Not only did they sign Hayward to that gargantuan deal, but they had to waive and stretch Nicolas Batum’s $27.1 million contract in order to fit him in.

That means not only are the Hornets paying $30 million per year for Hayward himself but for the next three years, they’ll be paying Batum just over $9 million annually not to play for them. It’s insane and unjustifiable, considering how far beyond reasonable Hayward’s contract is.

The Hornets have a nice young core of players including LaMelo Ball, Devonte’ Graham and P.J. Washington, and paying an absolute fortune for Hayward (and everything involved with getting him to Charlotte) like this just boggles the mind.