Hornets power forward David West has decided to test the free agent market.
Teams will have limited options in a weak group of free agents, but they should be weary of pursuing the 30-year-old, undersized forward who had knee surgery in April.
West has had a similar career to Carlos Boozer. Both are 6-foot-9, two-time All-Stars with a career average around 17 points. And both have played alongside an All-Star point guard for most of their careers.
Boozer signed a five-year deal worth close to $80 million with the Bulls last offseason, so West is likely looking for something comparable.
But Boozer wasn’t exactly worth the $14.4 million he earned last year — averaging only 12.6 points during the Bulls’ playoff run to the Eastern Conference finals.
And how will a new collective bargaining agreement affect West’s market value?
I guess West is banking on the NBA’s history of loose spending.
