Every NBA player participating in the 2016 playoff bracket is chasing a championship, but others are also chasing dollar signs.
Some soon-to-be free agents don't need the postseason to beef up their resumes. We know what DeMar DeRozan, Andre Drummond, Kevin Durant, Al Horford, et al. will command on the open markets.
Players with undefined market value are different. Postseason basketball is a small sample size regardless of its actual length and won't make or break most future contracts. But it is one last chance for mid-end talents or, in some cases, rock-bottom causes to drum up their cost ahead of July's free-agency bonanza.
Honorable Mention: Harrison Barnes, Golden State Warriors (restricted)
Harrison Barnes has become a max-contract formality, if only because that's what it will take to dare the Golden State Warriors, who can match any offer he receives, to cut him loose. His postseason performance isn't going to change that.
Barnes can, however, distance himself from that "only worth a max deal to an NBA dynasty" stigma.
That hasn't happened through his first ...
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