The five biggest winners of NBA Free Agency 2013

Kevin Garnett #2, Paul Pierce #34, and Jason Terry #31 of the Brooklyn Nets pose with their new jerseys during a press conference at the Barclays Center on July 18, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Getty Images)

3) Brooklyn Nets

Notable additions: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Terry, Andrei Kirilenko

Notable losses: Kris Humphries, Marshon Brooks, Kris Joseph

Back in 2009 when Mikhail Prokhorov announced that he would bring a championship to the Nets within five years, he certainly wasn’t kidding. Since then he has moved the team to Brooklyn, signed perennial All-Star Deron Williams as the cornerstone, traded for the obnoxious contract of Joe Johnson and signed Brook Lopez to a max deal. It doesn’t end there however.

The Nets’ owner seems to have done the math and has come to the conclusion that if they can’t beat the Heat in the East by quality, then they would do so by numbers. With the acquisition of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry from the Celtics, they now have a starting 5 of 5 present/ex All-Stars. They didn’t end there.

Soon Prokhorov would wield his political powers back home in Russia to get the versatile Andrei Kirilenko to agree to a $3.1million deal after the Russian opted out of a $10million final year deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

This means they will now have a further two ex-All Stars coming off the bench. How about that for an off-season? The only question mark that still remains is whether or not rookie coach Jason Kidd can work this band of stars to function as one unit.