NBA free agency: Players that signed with the wrong team

7. Luis Scola — Brooklyn Nets

Granted, the Brooklyn Nets were left with a gaping hole at the power forward position this offseason after they traded Thaddeus Young to the Indiana Pacers. Moreover, it was quite clear that the Nets concerned themselves this offseason with adding veteran players that, at the very least, should make them more competitive than they have been in recent years. All of that is great, but it still doesn’t make the reason that Luis Scola would sign with them make any more sense.

Scola isn’t nearly the player that he once was, a fact made glaringly obvious for the Toronto Raptors in the playoffs this past year when the veteran forward was routinely picked on by opposing big man with great success for the opposition. That being said, Scola is still the type of streaky offensive player that can come off of the bench in a frontcourt and put some points on the board. He’s a player that, at this point in his career, should realize that he should be looking to join a contender as a luxury piece to have off of the bench.

For how good the Nets’ offseason might look in terms of making them at least semi-relevant and setting them up better for the future, they aren’t the type of team that Scola should be looking to play out seemingly one of the last years of his career in the NBA with. It just seems like a poor fit in regards to where he is as a player and where the Nets are as a team, quite simply.

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