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The buildup to this summer's NBA free-agency class lacks the usual amount of ballyhoo.

Everyone's waiting on pins and needles for LeBron James' latest decision. Beyond that...crickets. Mostly.

A relative dearth of star power has given way to an absence of drama. Big names are peppered throughout the list of available players, but many of them, like Kevin Durant and Chris Paul, aren't going anywhere.

The market's ongoing correction from 2016's spending binge takes care of the rest. Free agents were dealt reality checks last summer (unless they were paid by the New York Knicks) and will be in for more of the same this year.

At least half the league will begin the offseason up against or over the cap. Most of the teams with clear paths to serious room are in the early stages of rebuilds and won't burn through it with reckless abandon.

Add it all together, and you have a perfect storm of wet blankets harshing free agency's typical buzz. Hype and hyperbole are harder to come by because the landscape won't allow for expensive and aggressive overreactions.

Consider this look at overpraised names with that in mind. We're evaluating players in the context of their positions and what could happen if outside suitors make it their mission to steal them from incumbents.

Some of these players are straight-up overrated. Others, though, are merely in line to be overpaid or overhyped—or both—because the league at large has little else to overvalue.