So, on this afternoon, Thomas shared a photo of Hansen signing a 5-year, 95 million supermax contract with the Grizzlies.
The supermax salary is linked to the league's salary cap, which hadn't changed much over the last few seasons, making the amount of this contract essentially consistent with the previous season.
Under the new collective bargaining agreement, this contract included a player option for the fourth year, which was in 2017.
Hansen, the biggest fish in free agency, settled his dust early, but the free-agent market was far from over that year.
Apart from him, there were two other big fish, Howard and Paul.
An interesting thing was that before this, Windhorst at ESPN had written about the idea of James playing together with the two.
Clearly, after a season that didn't quite match the face of Nike's leading man, James was desperately wanting to form his new Big Three.
Especially because Durant had put so much pressure on him.
