Outside of Golden State's signing of Kevin Durant, Marquette's returning NBA players are on the teams that could improve the most based on offseason moves to date. I rank the 30 team's offseasons in a Thursday Breitbart piece.
Click here for a more detailed analysis of the 148 best players by team. Here are the Bulls and Celtics players worth at least four extra wins based on last year's NBA Estimated Wins and the college Value Add basketball rankings
| Player | 2016 | 2017 | Extra Wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Lopez | NY | CHI | 7.8 |
| Jimmy Butler | CHI | CHI | 13.3 |
| Dwyane Wade | MIA | CHI | 11.1 |
| Rajon Rondo | SAC | CHI | 7.5 |
| Denzel Valentine | Michigan St. | CHI | 7.2 |
| Taj Gibson | CHI | CHI | 4.0 |
| Isaiah Thomas | BOS | BOS | 13.9 |
| Al Horford | ATL | BOS | 11.6 |
| Jae Crowder | BOS | BOS | 6.1 |
| Jared Sullinger | BOS | BOS | 5.9 |
| Ben Bentil | Providence | BOS | 5.7 |
| Amir Johnson | BOS | BOS | 4.1 |
| Ante Zizic | Croatia | BOS | 4.0 |
| Guerschon Yabusele | France | BOS | 4.0 |
| Jaylen Brown | California | BOS | 4.0 |
| Kelly Olynyk | BOS | BOS | 4.0 |
Whether or not Wade can repeat his level of play at 35 years old, and whether adding a whole bunch of good players to a Celtics team that really just needs one great one is also in question, but the pick up of Al Horford seems to give the Celtics a shot to go to the next level in the East.
As for Detroit, we have Michael Gbinije having a bigger first year impact, with Henry Ellenson the bigger star over his career once he stops twisting his body and hand on his shot.
It has been a great offseason for the former MU players - let's see if it plays out next year.
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