Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera, fresh off committing to a couple of maximum contracts worth a total of $247 million, fired off a tweet the night of July 1, 2016 featuring a black-and-white GIF of a toddler tossing stacks of cash out of a window. It was a funny, fitting image for the unprecedented NBA free-agency madness of last summer. A year later, as the league's market corrects itself from the wild spending enabled by a historic salary-cap spike and adjusts to next season's cap and luxury tax coming in well under original projections, the stacks of cash aren't nearly as thick and windows aren't open so wide, if at all. Pera's Twitter account has been silent this month, as this free-agency period has been a somber time in Memphis. The small-market Grizzlies, stuck in the middle as a team operating over the salary cap but determined to stay under the luxury tax, opted to let beloved face of the franchise Zach Randolph go instead of making a bid to compete with the two-year, $24 million offer he accepted from the Sacramento Kings. Fellow Grit 'n Grind mainstay Tony Allen remains unsigned. read more http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20143724/nba-nuclear-winter-forecasted-free-agents-summer-2018
