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Move over, San Antonio Spurs. Have fun scouring the bargain bin, Golden State Warriors. Enjoy the onset stages of your rebuild, Chicago Bulls and Dallas Mavericks(?). Stop hogging all the offseason headlines, Houston Rockets.

There are some new NBA free-agency destinations in town.

Or rather, there are about to be.

With the great spending spree of 2016 now set to go down as an anomaly, cap space means more than ever. And a handful of teams are uniquely positioned to enter (or re-enter) the primetime fray by next summer.

Above all else, these squads will have money to spend or a realistic path to joining those that do. But they're also nearing a sweet spot in their development. Proven youngsters and up-and-comers litter their rosters, arming them with assets that appeal to bigger, more established names, either as prospective running mates or the means to completing a blockbuster trade.

Once more: These teams are relatively new or completely foreign to the free-agency discussion. The Spurs should have mountains of flexibility in 2018. We don't care. They've been around this block a few times since 2015. The Minnesota Timberwolves are relevant again. Good for them. But they played their best hand this summer. They don't have an easy way to drum up significant cap space—not with Andrew Wiggins potentially nearing a five-year mega-extension, per ESPN.com.

Those who make the cut will be ranked by the expected depth of their pockets, current roster appeal and how likely they are to try flexing their muscles by 2018. Cap projections must be taken with a grain of skepticism, since situations can change over the next year. If all goes according to plan, though, these budding buyers should have the resources to contend with the usual offseason powerhouses.