NBA 2019-20: 5 Bloated contracts offered during free agency this offseason

#4 Al Horford - 4 years, $109 million

Al Horford vies for the ball

Unlike the Jazz, the Philadelphia 76ers aren't a small-market team with small-market aims of nabbing any free agent who'd give them a second look. With that in mind, acquiring Horford as a free agent seems to be a brand-new approach with no prior success record in the modern NBA.

Horford is the perfect player and has well and truly earned his contract, but given the Sixers' size and the fact that their point guard is a handy 6'9", they don't exactly lack for size in their frontcourt. It is tough to envision a playing five that fields Horford and Embiid on the regular, as it will make it easy for the guard-heavy league to hunt for mismatches and expose Embiid's relatively slow footwork on the perimeter.

At best, the rationale for this signing seems to be a move to make sure that Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo's best big man defender in the conference was on their roster, but that does not justify the price tag the Sixers are paying to the veteran given the glaring need for a lockdown defender on the perimeter for the roster.