Free Agent
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A Free Agent is player whose contract has expired or has been released and is available to sign with any team.
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Unrestricted Free Agents
Unrestricted free agents (UFAs) are players without a team. They have either been released from their club, had the term of their contract expire without a renewal, or were not chosen in league's draft of amateur players. These players, generally speaking, are free to entertain offers from all other teams and to decide with whom to sign a new contract.
Restricted
The specific rules of restricted free agency vary among the major professional sports, but in principle, it means that a player is free to solicit offers from other teams for new contracts. However, before this player is allowed to sign with the new club, the current club has a chance to match (or come within 10% in some leagues) the terms of the new contract in which case the player must remain with the original team. In some leagues, when a team signs a restricted free agent, they must compensate the original team with draft picks.
Current Free Agents
NBA
Point Guards
- Marcus Williams
- Steve Francis
- Dan Dickau
- Eddie Gill
- Blake Ahearn
- Jeff McInnis
- Mateen Cleaves
- Jared Jordan
- Keith McLeod
Shooting Guards
Small Forwards
Power Forwards
- Earl Barron
- Jon Brockman
- Francisco Elson
- Juwan Howard
- Chris Hunter
- Sean Marks
- Sean May
- Fabricio Oberto
- Oleksiy Pecherov
- Brian Skinner
- Joe Smith
- Shelden Williams
Centers
- Tony Battie
- Josh Boone
- Primož Brezec
- Kwame Brown
- Jason Collins
- Jarron Collins
- Kyrylo Fesenko
- Adonal Foyle
- Channing Frye
- Aaron Gray
- Steven Hunter
- Ian Mahinmi
- Didier Ilunga-Mbenga
- Yao Ming
- Nazr Mohammed
- Morris Randolph
- Rasho Nesterovic
- Patrick O'Bryant
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Joel Przybilla
- Theo Ratliff
- Etan Thomas
