The five biggest losers of NBA Free Agency 2013

1) Los Angeles Lakers

Chris Kaman

Notable additions: Chris Kaman, Nick Young

Notable losses: Dwight Howard, Metta World-Peace, Earl Clark

The Lakers are the last and the most effected of the teams who failed in the Dwight Howard hunt to be mentioned here. Relating the Lakers with failure in the free agent market is something that happens probably once in a decade. The Lakers took a huge risk when they traded for Howard without signing an extension but Kupchak was overly confident that Los Angeles wouldn’t lose a free agent it wanted to keep. That changed this summer as Howard waved good bye to La-La land and headed off for Houston.

This meant the Lakers would go into full re-build mode. Howard’s decision was promptly followed by the Lakers decision to amnesty Metta World Peace. With Kobe’s contract coming off the books after next year it surely gives the Lakers in excess of $30million to spend in the free agency of 2014 but as Kupchak found out the hard way, you really can’t take things for certain. Even with the Lakers.