While there was a surge of deals when free agency opened, players are seeing offers that are lower and shorter than many expected following the 2016 offseason.

"Fewer teams with cap space and teams have certainly been less aggressive," said Adrian Wojnarowski in describing the 2017 free agent market.

"Part of it is, what slowed up the market, talking to agents, general managers is expectations for so many players were really high. When they looked at what happened last summer, teams and agents knew that without the smoothing in of the cap spike, they put it all in that last year, in the first year, that players like Luol Deng and Timofey Mozgov, players like that were artificially getting an advantage.

"What's slowing the market now is players aren't accepting where they are now financially."

Players are appealing to their agents to continue to seek better deals elsewhere even if they're being advised to take what's offered.

Paul Millsap and Derrick Rose are a couple of examples of free agents who are finding the market to be more tepid than expected.