NBA Free Agency 2018: 5 best shooting guards available

1. Tyreke Evans

How Tyreke Evans wasn’t traded last year is unfathomable. The guy was just phenomenal and the Grizzlies were just miserable. Yet, they held onto him and now he gets to test the open market. He has the ability to be a team’s number one option as well as play a secondary role. This is because he does everything one needs him to do, rebound, create, and shoot.

He pulled down a very solid 5.1 rebounds per game last year, doing what needed to there. Then, he also averaged 5 assists per game despite not having a great supporting cast. He contributed 31.2 percent of the teams assists, which put him at 13th in the NBA in assist percentage. He created shots for other people as well as himself. Less than half of his three pointers and less than a quarter of his two pointer shot came off of assists. He took his 28.4 percent usage percentage and did everything he possibly could with it.

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If he goes somewhere that he isn’t the number one option, that won’t be a problem. Evans was in the 74th percentile on spot up jump shots. Last year, he shot 39.9 percent from three point range and should be expected to continue that type of performance going into next year.

Last year was a coming out party for Evans as he fully figured out what his style of play should be. He can now use what he learned in achieving his career high 21.1 PER to remain an efficient scorer in what ever role his new team decides to hand him.