NBA Free Agency: 5 Biggest Winners from Week 1 

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Who's No. 1?

#3 Golden State Warriors

Basketball - Olympics: Day 16
Basketball - Olympics: Day 16

If you'd told me 4 years back that a team that's won back-to-back championships would still have the ability to land the best player in the league at a position of weakness, I would've laughed you out of the room. Yet, here we are today, in a world where DeMarcus Cousins didn't get calls from a single NBA team for a reasonable contract, meaning that he contacted Bob Myers to join the Warriors for a $5.3 million salary as he rehabs from an Achilles injury that ended his 2017-2018 campaign prematurely.

The Warriors' best center during the playoffs was arguably JaVale McGee, and they still compiled a 16-5 record this year after setting the NBA record with a 16-1 run last season. Having let their in-house Shaqtin-a-Fool factory go to a rival team, they just ramped up the degree of difficulty for the rest of the league in the race to dethrone the Warriors from the top.

This was made possible when Kevin Durant took a $5 million discount to sign a 2-year, $61.5 million contract that has a player option for 2019. The Warriors also signed Kevon Looney to a 1-year, $2.4 million deal, bringing back a developing player for next season. Their final play so far was signing Jonas Jerebko as he got waived by the Jazz.

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